The Senate was mentally handicapped. They were never much of an issue.
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In legends, Seti Ashgad was going to do that very thing, but Palpatine secretly banished him to Nam Chorios. I believe Palps knew everything going on in the Senate and if their was ever a hint of that happening, he'd swoop down and make it go away