Lex Majoris Partis: How the Senate Can End the Filibuster on Any Day by Simple Majority Rule

Authors

Akhil Reed Amar

Description

Amar, the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, explains his preferred version of the so-called "nuclear option" by which a simple Senate majority may modify or eliminate the Senate's entrenched filibuster practice.

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Akhil R. Amar, Lex Majoris Partis: How the Senate Can End the Filibuster on Any Day by Simple Majority Rule , 63 Duke Law Journal 1483-1502 (2014) Available at: http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol63/iss7/2

Lecture Date

February 21, 2013

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