Sure an outdoor inauguration makes for a good photo op, but does that matter?
All that matters is that Trump is safe, so we can begin repairing this nation and defeat the enemy within. ----BioClandestine
Aha, I got it now, read more on the thread. My apologies!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/lawless-joe-biden-declares-radical-feminist-equal-rights/
LAWLESS: Joe Biden Declares Radical Feminist Equal Rights Amendment the “Law of the Land” and America’s Newest Constitutional Amendment – Legal Battle Now Looms
Sure an outdoor inauguration makes for a good photo op, but does that matter?
All that matters is that Trump is safe, so we can begin repairing this nation and defeat the enemy within. ----BioClandestine
When Congress attempted to extend the ratification window from 1979 to 1982, a federal district court in the case of Idaho v. Freeman declared that Congress used the wrong method to extend the window. Congress used the legislative process defined in Articles I and II rather than the amendatory process defined in Article V. Thus, the window closed in 1979. Appeals to higher courts were denied.
There were belated ratifications from Nevada, Illinois and Virginia. The Archivist of the United States refused to accept the ratifications. Illinois and Virginia sued in federal court to demand that the Archivist accept and tabulate them. Other states countersued demanding that the Archivist refuse them. A three-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Illinois and Virginia. That ruling has not been appealed.
Ratification windows got the green light from the Supreme Court in 1921 in Dillon v. Gloss and were reaffirmed in 1939 in Coleman v. Miller. This is settled law, and even the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg told ERA proponents that they had no chance at the Supreme Court and that they had to start from scratch with the ERA.
Even had Biden issued an executive order to the Archivist to tabulate the late ratifications, the Archivist would have refused because she is bound by the DC Circuit Court opinion from last year.
This is much ado about nothing. In the words of Dr. McCoy, "It's dead, Jim."