MSNBC's Brewer Floats Unconstitutional Idea That Obama Could Unilaterally Raise Debt Ceiling

Ken Shepherd | July 28, 2011
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Shortly after noon on July 28, MSNBC's Contessa Brewer followed her colleague Chuck Todd in using the anniversary of the 14th Amendment becoming law to cite the liberal fantasy of a clause in the amendment empowering President Obama to end-run Congress on raising the debt ceiling.

Like Todd she got her history and the text of the relevant clause wrong.

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