In article , Han wrote:
(Doug Miller) wrote in
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The 14th Amendment does not permit the President to do that: "The
validity of the public debt of the United States, AUTHORIZED BY LAW,
shall not be questioned ... [emphasis mine]" -- the point being that
any debt above the current ceiling is NOT "authorized by law".

Obama will not allow default to happen.

If Congress fails to act, he has no choice.

Didn't the 14th amendment predate the law that limits the national debt?
If that is so, then the SCOTUS needs to speak as to whether the later law
is constitutional ...
Or did SCOTUS?

It's not clear to me why you think that makes any difference. The amendment
refers to public debts authorized by law -- but there is no language there
restricting when, or how, such debts might be authorized. The historical
context of that clause shows that its purpose was to allow the United States
to repudiate debts incurred by the Confederacy or by individual Confederate
States, because those debts had *not* been "authorized by law."

It simply isn't applicable to the current situation.