Vice President-elect JD Vance took a last-minute, Cincinnati Reds-themed jab at outgoing President Joe Biden on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The move has no immediate legal force but will likely spark lawsuits that advocates hope will restore abortion rights.
Presidents have no direct role in approving constitutional amendments. So what could President Biden’s pronouncement recognizing a new one actually do?
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.
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.
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.
The ERA’s deadline expired decades ago, but the president argues that recent approvals by three states put the amendment over the top.
Biden announced that the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered a ratified addition to the U.S. Constitution.
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of homeland security, got some heat for rattling off dubious statistics during her Senate confirmation hearing Friday.
One of the more questionable things departing chief exec Joe Biden did in his waning days was declaring the Equal Rights Amendment officially “ratified” as the Constitution’s 28th Amendment.
Each era brings new challenges and interpretations that shape the foundation of law and justice in the United States.