President Obama might veto the Boehner bill, and he might not. The President is relying on his not-quite-strong-enough veto threat and Senate Democrats to protect himself from having to make that difficult choice...
Perhaps because the United States has so rarely hit the debt ceiling, there is a lot of misinformation about what it means. Here are three legal misconceptions I have observed in the news media and from politicians...
If the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) stalemate provides a precedent, President Obama will use an executive order to raise the debt limit, invoking the 14th Amendment as his constitutional bedrock...
Yesterday, I ran across another such famed quotation on the liberty-security relationship that, in context, also turns out to mean something very different from the meaning its many quoters assume...