The outgoing US president called on others to ‘affirm’ the amendment, which bars discrimination on the basis of sex.
The right and the left don’t agree on how they’d like to change the Constitution, but they do agree that changes need to be made.
U.S. President Joe Biden called the Equal Rights Amendment "the law of the land," on Friday, backing an effort to enshrine the change into the U.S. Constitution more than a century after the guarantee of gender equality was first proposed.
President Joe Biden announced a major opinion Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment is ratified, enshrining its protections into the Constitution, a last-minute move that some believe could pave the way to bolstering reproductive rights.
We need to amend the Constitution to make clear that no president, no president, is immune from crimes that he or she commits while in office,” Biden said.
The Equal Rights Amendment, which would prohibit discrimination based on gender, was sent to the states for ratification in 1972.
Outgoing President Joe Biden announced today that he believes the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) met ratification requirements and is now the official 28th amendment to the Constitution—a statement that has no legal force since the amendment remains unpublished.
That amendment was passed in response to Franklin Roosevelt’s four elections to the presidency. Since George Washington had stepped down at the end of his second term, no president had sought a third term, much less a fourth. The amendment was clearly meant to prevent presidents from serving more than two terms in office.
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Outgoing Federal Communications Commission chair Jessica Rosenworcel had some choice words about Donald Trump and the threat he poses to the First Amendment.
The Bill of Rights is not a vehicle for America’s foreign adversaries to undermine Americans’ freedoms. The Supreme Court recognized