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 ...

With one last, desperate gasp, outgoing President Joe Biden declared Friday the long-contested Equal Rights Amendment — which ... by politicians who sought its failure for either misogynistic ...

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 ...

Just before leaving office President Joe Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment the law of the land. If only.

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.

Biden announced that the 28th Amendment — an amendment guaranteeing men and women equal rights under the law — is the “law of the land.” “It is long past time to recognize the will of ...

So when Biden declared on his way out the door—with the bravado of someone who’d just found the cure to cancer—that the Equal Rights Amendment is officially the “law of the land,” I laughed.

As promised, my new paper on the Equal Rights Amendment, "The Twelfth Amendment and the ERA," is now available on SSRN. The paper lays out new historical evidence on prior Article V amendments ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a historic milestone for the nation, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) has been officially recognized as the 28th Amendment to the United States ...