Upholding the [eventually successful] Mansfield point of order only adds one tree to a jungle of precedents we reside in. But above and beyond that jungle stands the Constitution, and no precedent can reverse the fact that the Constitution supercedes the rules of the Senate that the constitutional right to make its rules cannot be challenged.
Cranston emphasizes the Constitution's supremacy over Senate rules.
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