Q: Did former President Joe Biden issue a statement saying that he thought the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered ...

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 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 ...

In one of his final acts as president, Joe Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) ratified, potentially enshrining gender equality into the U.S. Constitution as its 28th Amendment. "It is ...

President Biden asserted the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, is part of the Constitution, arguing Friday it had met the criteria to be added as the ...

The ERA is a 1970s-era prohibition on discrimination based on gender, guaranteeing men and women equal rights under the law. As a constitutional amendment, it needs ratification from three ...

On Jan. 17, 2025, outgoing President Joe Biden made a last minute an­nouncement of support for the Equal Rights Am­endment.

A: Yes. On one of his last days in office, Biden published a statement supporting the ERA, but it has no legal effect.

The Equal Rights Amendment or ERA was originally written in 1923 and gained renewed interest after World War II, when women had been forced to enter the workforce. It was reintroduced in Congress ...

President Biden said Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment had ... A few states that voted to ratify the amendment have since voted to rescind their approvals. ERA supporters argue that ...

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 ...

Hawaii, the first state to approve the amendment, did so on the same day the proposal passed Congress. Florida pondered the change quite studiously for almost 48 hours. The Florida House approved the ...