Common Cause is asking a federal appeals court in Washington to take a second look at the organization’s challenge to the U.S. Senate’s filibuster rule and its 60-vote requirement for action.

In a petition filed Tuesday, the non-partisan government reform group urged the full 11-member U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to review a three-judge panel’s decision in April dismissing 공통 원인 대 바이든. The panel said the litigation was flawed because it named officers of the United States Senate rather than the Senate itself as defendants.

Lead attorney and Common Cause National Governing Board Member Emmet Bondurant argued that the panel’s ruling is inconsistent with a long line of Supreme Court cases. The high court has held for over a century that the rule-making power of Congress is not absolute and is subject to the limitations imposed by other provisions of the Constitution, Bondurant asserted.

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코먼 코즈(Common Cause)는 미국의 민주주의의 핵심 가치를 회복하고, 대중의 이익을 위해 일하는 개방적이고 정직하며 책임감 있는 정부를 재창조하고, 일반인이 자신의 의견을 표명할 수 있는 힘을 실어주는 데 전념하는 비당파적 대중 조직입니다.