Does the 14th amendment offer President Biden a way to ignore the debt limit and stop negotiating with Republicans over the full faith and credit of the United States? Legal scholars @tribelaw and Michael W. McConnell join @mehdirhasan for #AnActualDebate.

May 18, 2023 · 9:23 PM UTC

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Two experts debate 14th amendment and the debt limit

The GOP is holding the economy hostage by refusing to raise the debt ceiling… again. Biden initially said he wouldn’t negotiate, but some legal experts say h...

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Replying to @MehdiHasanShow @tribelaw @mehdirhasan
"The Constitution itself requires giving some expenditures (such as the payment of judicial salaries, Art. III, § 1, or payments on the public debt, Amdt. XIV, § 4) priority over others." - Lawrence Tribe, 2011 balkin.blogspot.com/2011/07/…
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