"We are having a debt-ceiling crisis because Congress has given the president contradictory commands; it has ordered the president to spend money, and it has forbidden him to borrow enough money to obey its orders."
So speaks Jack Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale.
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I love his initial paragraph about why we are having this crisis, and I thoroughly appreciate his analysis of the various (creative) strategies that are available to Obama, including a discussion of the 14th amendment possibilities.
What strategies are open to Obama?
Balkin talks about a trillion dollar coin and a mortgage from the Federal Reserve.
Read about Balkin's ideas here.
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