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

President Joe Biden on Friday said the Equal Right Amendment should be considered ratified, but is stopping short of taking any action on the matter in his final days in office. "I have supported the ...

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.

The amendment, which was passed by Congress in 1972, enshrines equal rights for women. An amendment to the Constitution requires three-quarters of states, or 38, to ratify it.

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 ...

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 ...

The proposed amendment is simple, but the fight to add the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution has been anything but. In his last days in office, President Biden issued an ...

Legal scholars say President Joe Biden might be right about the Equal Rights Amendment — but his declaration on Friday has no legal significance. In a surprise move on his way out of office ...

After last November’s elections, a headline in the Star Tribune read, “After nearly a century, ERA might finally pass.” The Equal Rights Amendment simply states, “Equality of rights under ...

Biden Says the Equal Rights Amendment Is 'The Law of the Land.' What Is It, and What Happens Next? WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's symbolic declaration on Friday that the Equal Rights ...

The Equal Rights Amendment — which would become the nation’s 28th constitutional amendment — would explicitly protect Americans from discrimination on the basis of sex, which advocates argue ...

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 unlikely to ...