Current Events > Biden says Equal Rights Amendment is ratified kicking off expected legal battle.

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https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/17/politics/joe-biden-equal-right-amendment/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc

Not sure what good this will do if Trump can just erase it in a few days...unless I'm missing something.

If it becomes the 28th Amendment it will be difficult to undo, but legal and illegal don't matter to Trump so who knows.

Five states really tryna do take backs on ratifying an Amendment? SCOTUS has the weakness to attack it.

on the off chance this passes trump will take credit for it (all while working to dismantle it)

This isn't going anywhere. The ratification deadline was in 1982.

This isn't going anywhere. The ratification deadline was in 1982

Then what the hell does Biden think he's going to get done?( Facepalms)

Necronmon posted...

Then what the hell does Biden think he's going to get done?( Facepalms)

There's a legal theory that the ratification deadline was unconstitutional, since there isn't supposed to be a deadline attached to constitutional amendments. That will now have to be adjudicated in the courts.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

This isn't going anywhere. The ratification deadline was in 1982.

the 27th amendment was proposed in 1789 and ratified in 1992

Biofighter55 posted...

the 27th amendment was proposed in 1789 and ratified in 1992

Yes! Finally time to unleash this favorite factoid of mine

Still, when Trump returns to the White House on Monday, there is little that cant be undone. Just as Biden spent his first hours in office reversing some of Trumps biggest moves, rejoining international pacts and signing executive orders, so, too, can Trump cancel much of Bidens agenda.

So not much Biden is doing is permanent.

Good, I suppose - but you have to wonder why the hell he didn't do this in his first week instead of his last.

Biofighter55 posted...

the 27th amendment was proposed in 1789 and ratified in 1992

Which had no deadline set, unlike ERA.

YellowSUV posted...

Which had no deadline set, unlike ERA.

if that's the case I can see it used as argument for ERA since it set a precedent for an amendment taking over 200 years to be ratified

Biofighter55 posted...

if that's the case I can see it used as argument for ERA since it set a precedent for an amendment taking over 200 years to be ratified

Except the ERA had specific verbiage that it had to be ratified by a set date, which is what congress initially agreed to. The 27th had no sunset clause.

Especially with these courts, this is going nowhere.

darkknight109 posted...

There's a legal theory that the ratification deadline was unconstitutional, since there isn't supposed to be a deadline attached to constitutional amendments. That will now have to be adjudicated in the courts.

The courts will rule that the deadline was constitutional

K181 posted...

Except the ERA had specific verbiage that it had to be ratified by a set date, which is what congress initially agreed to. The 27th had no sunset clause.

Especially with these courts, this is going nowhere.

true but Im all for trying if possible

K181 posted...

Except the ERA had specific verbiage that it had to be ratified by a set date

No it didn't. The text of the amendment itself has no such verbiage. The Congressional resolution proposing it did, but the deadline was itself unconstitutional. Though obviously a Republican SCOTUS will pretend otherwise.

biden leaving his homework til the last minute, now desperately trying to cram as much in as possible the night before

I feel like most presidents do that.

Neoconkers posted...

biden leaving his homework til the last minute, now desperately trying to cram as much in as possible the night before

it's one of the bad things about being president since every president generally would wanna go for 2 terms, they spent of the first terms kissing ass so they have a chance od second term

Neoconkers posted...

biden leaving his homework til the last minute, now desperately trying to cram as much in as possible the night before

I would suspect the idea is to get this out in the news cycle of republicans being against equal rights.

The problem, unfortunately, is that the general American voting populace has shown they do not give 2 flying fucks about equal rights and actively wish more people DIDN'T have equal rights.