Over a hundred years ago, on December 14, 1923, a proposed amendment first came before the United States Congress. It read in its entirety, “Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the ...
President Joe Biden announced Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered a ratified addition to the U.S. Constitution, making a symbolic statement that’s unlikely to alter a ...
Some legal scholars argue that the amendment was properly ratified, but for Biden to definitively say it’s "the law of the land" ignores precedent and the reality that no federal government entity has ...
President Joe Biden said Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment, first proposed in 1923, should be considered ratified and part of the U.S. Constitution.
William Nesbit, an African American man who moved to Blair County in the mid-1800s was instrumental in helping others secure ...
By Peter Baker Erica L. Green and Annie Karni Reporting from Washington President Biden declared on Friday that he believes that the Equal Rights Amendment has met the requirements of ratification ...
Its history has been long and complex. By Noah Weiland Reporting from Washington President Biden said on Friday that he believed the Equal Rights Amendment met the requirements of ratification as ...
Tuesday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Andrew Walworth interviews columnist and New England Law Boston professor Wendy ...
A: Yes. On one of his last days in office, Biden published a statement supporting the ERA, but it has no legal effect.
Outgoing President Joe Biden has thrown his weight behind an effort to enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment part of the United States Constitution. Friday’s announcement was the latest in a ...
U.S. President Joe Biden announced Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered a ratified addition to the U.S. Constitution, making a symbolic statement that’s unlikely to alter ...
Statutory deadlines and presidential proclamations aside, like outgoing President Joe Biden's recent declaration that the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was now law, all that matters ...