Posted on 01/17/2025 3:34:22 PM PST by RoosterRedux
Legal experts slammed President Biden's announcement declaring the 28th Amendment law as "cynical and irrelevant."
Biden on Friday released a statement saying the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) should be considered ratified and a new addition to the U.S. Constitution.
"It is long past time to recognize the will of the American people. In keeping with my oath and duty to the Constitution and country, I affirm what I believe and what three-fourths of the states have ratified: the 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex," he said.
"Biden’s announcement is both cynical and irrelevant," said former Assistant U.S. attorney and Fox News contributor Andrew McCarthy. "If he believed what he is saying, he would’ve said it when his administration started, not when he is on his way out the door as a failed, one-term president.
"More importantly, the president has no constitutional role in the amendment process, so his view carries no weight."
"President Biden seems intent on moving his administration from the odious to the absurd," Jonathan Turley, Fox News contributor and the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, told Fox News Digital. "This was an embarrassingly pandering moment to the most extreme elements in his party. It is a position based on a long-rejected and frankly ridiculous foundation."
When asked about the timing of the announcement by reporters, Biden said Friday, "Because I had to get all of the facts and I contacted every constitutional scholar in the world to make sure it was the right decision."
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"The deadline was later extended to 1982."
😂😂😂😂😂👍. Don’t work like that jojo.
Did Doctor Jill demand that Joe do this...gender equality is a cause she’s passionate about.
Like many villains, both in fiction and history, Biden is determined to do as much damage as possible on his way down.
Joe just overturned the Second Amendment, too!
Biden really made a fool out of himself on this one.
Luckily our Founders made it sufficiently difficult and time consuming to amend the Constitution to protect the Republic from totalitarian wannabe maroons like Biden.
Just how many "constitutional scholars" are there outside of the US?
This nonsense just increased the pain libs will suffer because of this buffoon
It's hard to improve on perfection. But Joe did it.
He's an even bigger idiot than he was last week.
Presidents can’t ratify amendments to the US Constitution by tweet. Nonsense from a senile man. Kamala, who promptly agreed with Biden, doesn’t have the excuse of senility - she’s just an idiot.
"Bang! Zoom! The worrrrrld!"
To the Left, as many as it takes to get people to buy into whatever snake oil they're peddling.
Even the Democrats are ignoring Biden on this.
Really it's not Biden. But his team of "Liberal Handlers". They are not giving a **** even though it's making their party look pathetic.
Somebody needs to tell Chester the molester he can’t do this. He’s just a flunky former “president.”
Yeah, but the easy way to amend the constitution is have the Army occupying states, and forcing actual representatives out of the state government, installing puppet governments to run the states, and then getting the puppets to vote for amendments in the name of the states.
Like the Federal government did with the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments.
Amending the constitution is real easy if you just use the army to subvert the will of the people of the states.
A drunken idiot at that.
Cool, deemed passed because Biden the bungle-brained buffoon says so. And with Pelosi logic, we shall be bound to abide by it, to see what’s in it.
Nice precedent - Trump can now deem passed a dozen other constitutional amendments.
Usurpers rightfully should have everything they’ve done, every penny they spent, undone, and refunded.
I’m sure that this will the topic of the day for the Sunday talk shows in addition to bemoaning Hitler’s upcoming inauguration the following day.
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