I've posted a couple of previous diaries about the Senate rules in the last few days. In the first one, I talked about what the Senate rules are, and how they can be changed. In the second, I talk about one frequent misconception about the Senate rules, that there's an opportunity to change them with each new Congress.
If you've read both of those diaries, then I hope you've absorbed that changing the rules within the Senate itself really requires the 67 votes that people keep talking about, and that if you want to "fix" any of them within that frame, you just need to elect a lot of better Democrats. In this diary, I want to talk to another frequent idea: that the Supreme Court, the President, or, perhaps, the House of Representatives can change the Senate rules without the Senate's cooperation.
They can't. It's that simple. There's no equivalent of the 67 vote rule; the only body on Earth that can change the Senate rules is the Senate itself.
