President Joe Biden's executive opinion on the Equal Rights Amendment comes in the final days of his presidency. Some local advocates wish he and Democrats had acted sooner.
This morning, Biden declared on X that “the Equal Rights Amendment is now the law of the land.” Well, there you have it: The Constitution has a 28th amendment, and women’s rights have been enshrined across the country. Or not. Biden can’t change the Constitution, because the Constitution doesn’t allow him to.
If Biden really wanted to make the ERA the “law of the land,” he would have needed to direct the head of the National Archives to ignore the Department of Justice. But he didn't do that—or really anything for women's rights during his presidency.
President Joe Biden has weighed in on the decades-long ... Equal Rights Amendment started in 1923 when leading suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th ...
“Equality is a fundamental promise of our democracy. That is why the Equal Rights Amendment belongs in our Constitution,” Harris said in a statement. “It makes our nation stronger, and it is the law of the land because the American people have spoken in states across our nation.”
The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when leading suffragist Alice Paul first proposed ... President Joe Biden on Friday declared that the ERA should ...
The president’s announcement on Friday was one of many sweeping executive moves he’s making in his final days in office.
Let’s ensure that the principles of the ERA are not just words on paper, but are reflected in our workplaces, schools and community spaces.”
President Joe Biden has weighed in on the decades-long Equal Rights Amendment debate, but does his statement hold any weight? Experts say no.
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