Republican House, Democratic President -- Must be debt limit time

Biden suggests using 14th Amendment to stop future debt ceiling standoffs (WaPo)

Despite the president’s musings, legal scholars say it may prove difficult, if not impossible, to invoke the 14th Amendment to void the debt limit outside of an existing standoff with Congress. That is because it is not clear what would precipitate a lawsuit forcing a ruling by the courts, and the judiciary would have little incentive to weigh in on a spat between the executive and legislative branches outside of an emergency. The same reason that such a court battle might appeal to the president — that it would occur outside the high stakes of a debt ceiling standoff — also undermines its feasibility as a solution, they say.

Can't they just find a group of Texas doctors who claim they have been injured because they might one day have to treat someone who suffered because of the debt limit? Or is that kind of argument for "standing" only restricted to certain specific issues?

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Hooray?

Senate passes debt ceiling bill, sending it to Biden to sign into law (WaPo)

Alternate headline -- "Arsonists manage to extinguish fuse on dynamite stick they lit, promise they'll wait two years before doing it again"