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As the U.S. looks to avoid a catastrophic default, some Democrats have floated an untested legal strategy designed to allow President Biden to circumvent Congress…
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Only Republicans Want to Push Us Into Default
May 23, 2023
Who wants to enforce the debt ceiling and push the United States into default? Only the Republicans in Congress. Who wants to have the president…
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While MAGA Republicans attempted to hold the country hostage to demands for unfeasible and unpopular cuts that would savage everything from health care to border…
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America is hurtling towards the “x-date” of June 1st, when Janet Yellen, the treasury secretary, says the country could run out of money to pay…
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Laurence Tribe says in requiring the president to pay U.S. debts it supersedes debt-limit law and breaks the impasse over GOP demands
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If he were president, Hawley says, he’d be tempted to raise debt ceiling without Congress
May 18, 2023
As Republicans and Democrats appear at an impasse on raising the debt ceiling, President Joe Biden last week suggested he was open to another option:…
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Trump’s Most Pivotal, Incriminating Admission on CNN
May 17, 2023
An article co-written by Laurence Tribe: In terms of criminal law, among several self-destructive statements former President Donald Trump made in CNN’s “Town Hall,” the…
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A group of Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday announced the reintroduction of legislation that would expand the Supreme Court by adding four seats. While speaking about…
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Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School professor emeritus, joins ‘Squawk on the Street’ to discuss if Tribe’s op-ed piece made any waves in the debt ceiling…
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If Joe Biden and House Republicans fail to reach a debt deal, the crisis could get tossed to the Supreme Court — where it would…
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The Saturday/Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
May 15, 2023
“To take the 14th Amendment off the table is to say that part of the Constitution no longer binds us. We can’t do that…it would…
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‘Mr. President, if you’re listening…’: Laurence Tribe on how to end GOP debt default crisis
May 11, 2023
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is joined by Harvard Constitutional Law Professor Laurence Tribe, who’s advised three Democratic presidents on separation of powers and the 14th Amendment,…
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President Joe Biden made waves Tuesday when he acknowledged he was considering using the 14th Amendment to end the debt standoff — before saying he…
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Biden “considering” debt ceiling escape clause
May 10, 2023
President Biden publicly signaled on Tuesday that he’s weighing options to take debt ceiling default off the table in the future, including a controversial theory…
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Laurence Tribe: President’s ‘duty’ is to pay debts despite GOP giving him an ‘impossible choice‘
May 9, 2023
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is joined by Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe who explains what the president’s constitutional duties are despite the demands from House Republicans…
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Why I Changed My Mind on the Debt Limit
May 8, 2023
Guest essay by Laurence Tribe: At this moment, at the White House as well as the Departments of Treasury and Justice, officials are debating a…
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Senior White House officials see enormous risks in trying to resolve the debt ceiling impasse without Congress, viewing the unilateral measures floated by some academics…
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An article co-written by Laurence Tribe: On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could well advance two long-term conservative causes: the…