{"id":190060,"date":"2010-01-11T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/11\/its-constitutional\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:52:00","slug":"its-constitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/11\/its-constitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Constitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of talk in the past few weeks about whether or not <a href=\"http:\/\/lmgtfy.com\/?q=filibuster+unconstitutional\">the Senate filibuster is constitutional<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The answer here is, &#8220;Of course it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is no court in the United States, including the US Supreme Court, that would rule this otherwise, so it&#8217;s constitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Spending time debating this is mental masturbation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of talk in the past few weeks about whether or not the Senate filibuster is constitutional. The answer here is, &#8220;Of course it is.&#8221; There is no court in the United States, including the US Supreme Court, that would rule this otherwise, so it&#8217;s constitutional. Spending time debating this is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1097,972,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-constitution","category-justice","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}