Last Friday, former President Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment "the law of the land" - so why has it failed to become the nation's 28th constitutional amendment.
A: Yes. On his last full day in office, Biden published a statement supporting the ERA, but it has no legal effect.
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.
Tuesday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Andrew Walworth interviews columnist and New England Law Boston professor Wendy Murphy about how President Biden's lame-duck declaration of support for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) conflicts with his administration's efforts to argue in favor of transgender rights.
President Joe Biden announced on Friday that he considers the Equal Rights Amendment to have been ratified. His statement “affirm[ed] what I believe and what three-fourths of the states have ratified: the 28th Amendment is the law of the land,
Q: Did former President Joe Biden issue a statement saying that he thought the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered part of the Constitution? A: Yes. On his last full day in office, Biden published a statement supporting the ERA,
I was amazed when Joe Biden, just before the end of his presidency, declared that the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered ratified as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. A symbolic statement,
A civil rights complaint is asking the U.S. Department of Education to investigate four Pennsylvania universities, including Millersville University.
Over the past month, principles of government laid out in the U.S. Constitution have either been misinterpreted or ignored by both Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
VESTAL, N.Y. (WBNG) -- On his first day back in power, President Donald Trump revoked a record 78 executive orders. Two of those revoked orders, LGBTQIA+ leaders said, will have a direct impact on their community.
Transgender rights advocacy groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order that targeted transgender service members, in what would be the first legal challenge to a cornerstone of his conservative agenda at the Pentagon.
Before US President Donald J. Trump returned to the Oval Office and began systematically attacking initiatives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) across US institutions, Alabama