this will have unintend consequences. remember the republicans, you weren t around then but after world war ii they pass ad 22nd amendment to the constitution to deny, two term limit on the president to deny fdr in death what they couldn t do in life. it affected two future presidents. this will come back to bite presidents in the future too. whether it s unconstitutional or whatever. the change of the filibuster rule in 75 supposed to limit filibusters, filibusters increased but didn t profound the nature of the senate and i don t think this will either after they get over the short term anger. chuck todd, what was behind the move? think what was behind it had to do what happened with the d.c. circuit. you know, we can go down a certain way. democrats wanted to fill these holes in the d.c. circuit. second highest court. more importantly the court that hears a lot of cases that are challenges to government