Thursday, June 01, 2023

Legal scholar Jonathan Turley lays bare Democrats' constitutional ignorance in debt ceiling crisis - TheBlaze

Legal scholar Jonathan Turley lays bare Democrats' constitutional ignorance in debt ceiling crisis - TheBlaze

Constitutional law scholar Jonathan Turley over the weekend silenced Democrats urging President Joe Biden to use the 14th Amendment to end the debt ceiling crisis. Progressive Democrats, upset that Biden negotiated with Republicans, want Biden to avert default by invoking a questionable legal maneuver: an obscure provision in the 14th Amendment ratified in the context of the post-Civil War America, which almost certainly was not designed to be used to override the statutory borrowing limit.

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