Normally rules changes in the Senate need 67 votes, but the majority can challenge an existing rule, and if the presiding senator rules against the challenge, the majority can then ask for a vote on the chair's ruling.
"After the presiding officer rules, any Senator who disagrees with such ruling may appeal the ruling of the chair--that appeal is fully debatable.
The presiding officer ruled the motion in order.
The two other judges, appointed under Republican administrations, Peter T. Fay and David B. Sentelle, the presiding judge, ruled that the office should continue.
Yet Dominique Pauthe, the presiding judge, ruled that Société Générale's failure to detect Mr. Kerviel's dealings for more than two years did not absolve the trader of primary responsibility for the bank's huge losses.
In the recent case of the State Department contractor Stephen Kim, the presiding judge ruled the prosecution "need not show that the information he allegedly leaked could damage US national security or benefit a foreign power, even potentially".
MUMBAI, India — The trial of the only surviving gunman from the terrorist attack here last year will continue, the presiding judge ruled Thursday, and the attacker's stunning admission of guilt earlier this week will remain part of the record.
Hollywood loves self-righteously to portray now-unchallenged liberal causes under siege, even though in this case the cause of free speech was vindicated when the presiding judge ruled that "Howl" was a work of "redeeming social importance" and that Ferlinghetti was innocent.
The presiding judge ruled that she would stand trial once, for all of the charges against her, rather than be tried separately on each.
The presiding judge ruled against Dubay, noting: "If chivalry is not dead, its viability is gravely imperiled by the plaintiff in this case".
