Posted on 01/17/2025 1:17:18 PM PST by riverdawg
WASHINGTON—President Biden moved to enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment in the Constitution, declaring that the measure to prohibit sex-based discrimination had cleared the necessary hurdles to go into effect after a half-century of debate.
The announcement came just days before Biden is set to surrender power to President-elect Donald Trump, and it was certain to face legal challenges and fierce objections from Republicans.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
An amendment gets 7 years to either pass or be rejected. And, here we are, 50 years later, and Joe Biden waves his magic wand ...
Yeah. No.
The Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land (U.S.Const., Art. VI, Cl. 2), trumps anything confused Biden, the illegal gov’t, or the Lying Left makes up.
He likes to project that others are a tyrannical threat to democracy, and then he always does something like this. What an egotistical, mean-spirited, angry, utterly corrupt, and pathetic waste of skin and oxygen.
He sounds like Obama, a phone and a pen, the law of the land.
Last time I checked there wasn’t anything in the Constitution about protecting homos.
The ERA is dead, and Biden has nothing to say about it.
Just ignore it. He doesn’t have the power to do that.
An amendment gets 7 years to either pass or be rejected.
Dems are now insisting that none of the time-limits are relevant and that state legislatures cannot rescind ratification. If they want ERA so bad, why not introduce it and see if gets any support.
There is a clear process to get an amendment to the Constitution amended. This is what I found:
“The Equal Rights Amendment was first drafted in 1923 by two leaders of the women’s suffrage movement, Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman.”
“While the text of the amendment has changed over the years, the gist of it has remained the same. The version approved by Congress in 1972 and sent to the states reads:
“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.””
“The Constitution provides that amendments take effect when three-quarters of the states ratify them, putting the current threshold at 38 states. Virginia was the 38th state to ratify the ERA since Congress proposed it in 1972, technically pushing the ERA across that threshold. And yet, there are still hurdles in the ERA’s path. The ratification deadlines that Congress set after it approved the amendment have lapsed, and five states have acted to rescind their prior approval. These raise important questions, and now it is up to Congress, the courts, and the American people to resolve them.”
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/equal-rights-amendment-explained
Insane.
2 days, 19 hours, 28 minutes, and 8 seconds to go.
He is a clear and present danger to the United States
What this lawless imbecile knows about the law wouldn’t fill a thimble.
Praise God for deliverance from this stupid criminal.
Say goodbye Barack!
Equal rights amendment is the law of the land? Not according to the law of the land.
They can’t seem to be able to define a woman in the first place, so this really should not compute.
In Idaho v. Freeman, a federal district court ruled that the extension by Congress of the seven-year ratification window to ten years was unconstitutional. Appeals to higher courts failed.
Last year, a three-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated the three belated ratifications. That decision hasn't been appealed to the full circuit or the Supreme Court.
The courts have spoken. It's over.
Might as well add the right to abortion while he’s at it. Old man yelling at the clouds.
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