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"The entire GOP debt ceiling negotiation is a sad charade, and it’s exactly what’s wrong with Washington. We’re playing with fire and the livelihoods of millions just for the GOP to try and turn the screws on hungry Americans," Fetterman wrote Thursday in a tweet. "This is the whole reason why the 14th Amendment exists, and we need to be prepared to use it. We cannot let these reckless Republicans hold the economy hostage."
Ratified in 1868, three years after the conclusion of the Civil War, the 14th Amendment, considered by both scholars and ordinary Americans to be one of the most consequential assurances of civil liberties in U.S. history, encoded citizenship and due process for former slaves and is notably remembered, lauded, discussed and debated today for its landmark "equal protection" clause.
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside," states Section 1 of the Amendment.
Is it too much to ask that our Elected Officials be cognizant of our Constitution? The "whole reason" for the Fourteenth Amendment was to grant citizenship to free blacks and give them equal protection under the law.
And, while the topic of debt is mentioned in a subsection of the Fourteenth Amendment:
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Despite Fetterman urging the president to use the amendment amid debt negotiations, experts who spoke with Fox News Digital earlier this month cast doubt on the viability of Biden invoking the 14th Amendment to the Constitution to raise the federal borrowing limit.
"The plain reading of Section Four is that it has absolutely nothing to do with the debt limit. Existing debts cannot be questioned; but raising the debt ceiling is for the purpose of creating new debts. Nothing in Section Four says Congress must create new debt to service older debt. A failure to raise the debt ceiling in no way questions the validity of existing debts," Ilan Wurman, an associate professor of law at Arizona State University, told Fox.
The Republicans have passed a plan that raises the debt limit and cut spending. Why are Democrats holding our country and its obligations hostage? Is it because they do not dare agree with their political enemy? Is their wish of "bipartisanship", which President Biden campaigned on, a bunch of hogwash?
Is it too much to ask that our Elected Officials be cognizant of our Constitution? The "whole reason" for the Fourteenth Amendment was to grant citizenship to free blacks and give them equal protection under the law.
Is it too much to ask that our Elected Officials be cognizant of our Constitution? The "whole reason" for the Fourteenth Amendment was to grant citizenship to free blacks and give them equal protection under the law.
And, while the topic of debt is mentioned in a subsection of the Fourteenth Amendment:
The Republicans have passed a plan that raises the debt limit and cut spending. Why are Democrats holding our country and its obligations hostage? Is it because they do not dare agree with their political enemy? Is their wish of "bipartisanship", which President Biden campaigned on, a bunch of hogwash?
We have a Senile President and in their infinite wisdom, the State of Pennsylvania elected this Stroke Victim who has lived off his Parents for his entire life, suffers from Depression and can barely Read or Talk.
THIS is the Democrat Party — totally clueless about the US Constitution and the LAW in our Nation.
The Democrats couldn’t even bother to find this sick man a marginally competent Staff.
“This is the whole reason why the 14th Amendment exists, and we need to be prepared to use it. We cannot let these reckless Republicans hold the economy hostage."
Why are Democrats holding our country and its obligations hostage?
Because they want to pass more Green New Deal and Build Back Better bills in the future. These, plus all the Climate Change stuff, will cost many trillions to implement, which we don't have, so they just want to borrow and print to pay for it.
The GOP doesn't want to pass any of those bills, but can't leave the vote to chance, so by putting a cap on spending they effectively hamstring the bills.
Neither side gives a wet crap about spending, IMO.
..they don't want to cut spending....their base is dependent on their candy programs
Are you f-ing kidding? Sadly, I know you’re not. The GOP is all about government goodies and handouts for rich people. It’s disgusting. Trump would be thousandaire if it weren’t for the government sugar the GOP gives to his ilk. Wake up. The real welfare queens are the donor class the GOP falls over itself to reward with even more ill gotten gains. Kick these queens off welfare. We could balance the budget overnight.
Neither side gives a wet crap about spending, IMO.
Absolutely. This has been proven time and time again. Those who think the Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility are living 50 years in the past. They are all about robbing the poor to give to the rich. Country be damned.
Are you f-ing kidding? Sadly, I know you’re not. The GOP is all about government goodies and handouts for rich people. It’s disgusting. Trump would be thousandaire if it weren’t for the government sugar the GOP gives to his ilk. Wake up. The real welfare queens are the donor class the GOP falls over itself to reward with even more ill gotten gains. Kick these queens off welfare. We could balance the budget overnight.
Here we go again …… TRUMP-TRUMP-TRUMP
This is a thread about the Senator from Pennsylvania AND hid viewpoint of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.
This is a thread about the Senator from Pennsylvania AND hid viewpoint of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.
This guy has probably never heard of the 14th Amendment either, that's why he'd rather talk about something else.
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