No, the legislature will quickly change the law so that he cannot, then change it back when necessary.
In all the discussion about Scott Brown, I've never heard anyone suggest that the reason he won was widespread disgust over how the Massachusetts Democrats kept changing the rules.
I do believe there was some blowback from that.
I've also stressed that if Teddy had just relinguished his seat when his cancer was first diagnosed, there would have been a more orderly transition and likely a Democrat would have been elected a year or so ago.
Lousy Lautenberg should do the wise thing and leave in an orderly fashion. This naked grasping for power is what enabled Brown to win.
If they wanted to do that it would have had to have been before Christie took office. I believe they discussed it.
Now Christie could simply veto any change.
Frank should step down to focus on his health. Come on Frank lose the stressful job and you’ll make it to 200.