Remember, we are dealing with a co-equal branch of government. The courts have NO jurisdiction over the Senate's rules or operations.
Tell that to Metamucil Lad and his army of lawyers. In the Time of Trump, there is no such thing as the Constitution nor any silly talk about "co-equal branch of government." No rules, no laws, no norms. It's whatever you can get away with as you keep delaying the adults' ability to do their work. Deflect and delay, delay, delay.
As evidence, I submit Trump's use of frivolous lawsuits to delay the subpoenas issued by Congress ... you know that "co-equal branch of government" you're talking about. When those frivolous lawsuits are decided against, his Army of Fallacious Claims then appeal that decision, get struck down and so appeal it up higher all the way to the US Supreme Court. And when that court also decides against them and sends it back down to the original court, Metamucil Lad's Army then just starts the same cycle all over again by making the same specious claims ready to appeal all the way back up to the US Supreme Court. Wasting months and even years during which Congress (Remember them? That "co-equal branch of government" in a world where the Constitution is meaningless) still cannot do its job investigating Trump. Delay delay delay.
The courts have NO jurisdiction over the Senate's rules or operations.
Of course not! But if you file lawsuits claiming that it does, then the courts have to process those lawsuits and come down with the obvious decision. That would take months to work through the system. All we need are four months (120 days) until Inauguration Day.
Of course, suing the shit out of them is my own emotional reaction to all the anti-American, anti-Constitution crap that the Trump has been pulling and the GOP has been enabling.
While such lawsuits may not be
THE tactic to use, they do point to what must be done.
Delay, delay, delay! Do everything we possibly can to delay McConnell's hypocritical sodomizing of America until a new President, a
legitimate President, is in the office.
Most of that will have to be done internally in the Senate using its rules and procedures to delay this travesty.