Today, members routinely campaign against each other, raise donations against each other and force votes on trivial amendments written solely to provide fodder for the next negative attack ad.
One option was extreme and risky: force votes on trivial amendments in order to grind the Senate to a halt and shut down the government with a Democratic president in the White House and another Democrat hoping to win the office in November.
At oral argument, Gorsuch suggested the Court apply a "triviality exception" to the Sixth Amendment public trial right and find that the courtroom closure was trivial.
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But to many of those at a dinner to celebrate the struggle for gay rights and against a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, those concerns seemed like trivial political machinations.
Another amendment will tighten the ECHR's admissibility criteria, so that more trivial cases can be rejected.
If the justices strike down Abood and rule that public employees have a First Amendment right not to pay fair-share fees, then all of these trivial matters of private concern risk becoming constitutional cases.
The judges in the majority said important First Amendment principles were at stake, though they acknowledged that the case involved, at most, trivial sums of money.
Meanwhile, Mr. Boehlert and Mr. Markey have persuaded the leadership to allow a vote on an amendment that would make meaningful changes in fuel economy standards as opposed to the trivial improvements now contained in the bill.
