During the Obama administration, when the debt limit ploy came up, Obama reportedly considered using Sec. 4 of the 14th Amendment to, in essence, argue that the debt limit legislation was unconstitutional and to order the Dept. of the Treasury to just borrow the money and pay the bills. He decided against it, it was reported, because Lawrence Tribe, his former constitutional law professor, advised against it. Recently, it has recently been reported, Tribe has changed his mind. I would love to see Biden take that route and have written him and my senators asking them to do so. The Supreme Court would, I think, have a tricky time trying to devise a legal obstacle to the Treasury doing as it was told. There's nothing in the constitution saying the Supreme Court is the only branch of government entitled to decide what is constitutional. There is only Chief Justice John Marshall's court saying so.
During the Obama administration, when the debt limit ploy came up, Obama reportedly considered using Sec. 4 of the 14th Amendment to, in essence, argue that the debt limit legislation was unconstitutional and to order the Dept. of the Treasury to just borrow the money and pay the bills. He decided against it, it was reported, because Lawrence Tribe, his former constitutional law professor, advised against it. Recently, it has recently been reported, Tribe has changed his mind. I would love to see Biden take that route and have written him and my senators asking them to do so. The Supreme Court would, I think, have a tricky time trying to devise a legal obstacle to the Treasury doing as it was told. There's nothing in the constitution saying the Supreme Court is the only branch of government entitled to decide what is constitutional. There is only Chief Justice John Marshall's court saying so.