PwnallthethingsDebating with myself whether to actually write up the billion and twelve reasons why if the President wants to ignore the debt ceiling he needs to mint the coin, rather than use the 14th amendment, but also ... kinda feel like it will have an interested readership of somewhere between -4 and 0.
Ken '|<3ns41' 🌻 🫰🏻@Pwnallthethings Lawrence Tribe pointed out that when the executive branch is given conflicting laws it is their responsibility to make the best determination of how to enforce them. If there's a law saying to pay and a law saying not to pay, they can just pay because it's one of the choices. (It's virtually guaranteed that this interpretation would go to the SCOTUS and who knows what they'll rule, though.)