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OA748: Everything You Wanted To Know About the Debt Ceiling (But Were Afraid to Ask)

May 25, 2023
01:02:32

This is it! Liz and Andrew break down the debt ceiling and what can be done about it, including the Fourteenth Amendment. You'll want to share this far and wide!

In the Patreon bonus, Liz and Andrew tackle a stupendously bad article arguing against the application of the 14th Amendment.

NOTES OA 736 https://openargs.com/oa736-scotus-tees-up-rancid-herring-case-to-gut-the-administrative-state/

31 U.S.C § 3101 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/3101

Congressional Research Service, Debt limit votes 1978 to present https://sp.fas.org/crs/misc/R41814.pdf

Congressional Research Service, The Gephardt Rule https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL31913

HR 3877 https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/3877/text

Perry v. U.S., 294 U.S. 330 (1935) https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3388791031923623137

EO 6102 notice https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Executive_Order_6102.jpg

Laurence Tribe, “A Ceiling We Can’t Wish Away,” New York Times, July 7, 2011 https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/opinion/08tribe.html

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