Bench Memos

More on the Debt Ceiling and the Fourteenth Amendment

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Laurence Tribe, in today’s New York Times, joins the chorus of constitutional critics trashing the idea that the president can unilaterally borrow money, in defiance of a statutory debt ceiling.

Matthew J. Franck is retired from Princeton University, where he was a lecturer in Politics and associate director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He is also a senior fellow of the Witherspoon Institute, a contributing editor of Public Discourse, and professor emeritus of political science at Radford University.
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