Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, literally applauded this Thursday when Bruce Bartlett explained how Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner could use the 14th Amendment to justify ignoring the debt limit. Pelosi and her Democratic caucus may wish Geithner and Bartlett’s reading of the Constitution is correct, but as Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito, explains below, the 14th Amendment doesn’t say what Bartlett and Geithner think it does:
