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.
Presidents have no direct role in approving constitutional amendments. So what could President Biden’s pronouncement recognizing a new one actually do?
The outgoing US president called on others to ‘affirm’ the amendment, which bars discrimination on the basis of sex.
In his final week as president, Biden is using his bully pulpit to try to push forward the amendment that would enshrine sex equality in the U.S. Constitution.
Supporters say it is needed to protect against discrimination. Opponents argue the timetable to have it become part of the Constitution has passed.
Sensible Americans consider the Equal Rights Amendment a long-dead relic, but its supporters, incredibly, are still trying to revive it.
We call on President Biden to instruct U.S. archivist to certify and publish the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to U.S. Constitution.
President Joe Biden's symbolic declaration on Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment is “the law of the land” likely only sets up more debates for Congress and the courts over the constitutional prohibition on gender-based discrimination.
President Joe Biden released a statement Friday declaring that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) “has become part of our Constitution.” Biden asserted that as of 2020, 38 states have ratified the amendment and stated it should now be recognized as “the law of the land,
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 even though it long ago failed to secure the approval of enough states to become an amendment.
This ruling will disappoint the app’s 170 million users in the United States. But it reflects eminently reasonable deference to the judgment of Congress.