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

“The president has done his.” Claudia Nachega, a leader in the Young Feminist Party, said certifying the Equal Rights Amendment would signal “the beginning of a new American era that gives ...

Statutory deadlines and presidential proclamations aside, like outgoing President Joe Biden's recent declaration that the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was now law, all that matters ...

About 7000 Equal Rights Amendment demonstrators in protest in Raleigh in 1982 after the legislature buried the issue. File photo This week, our nation took a historic step forward after President ...

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

Andrew Walworth interviews columnist and New England Law Boston professor Wendy Murphy about how President Biden's lame-duck declaration of support for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) conflicts ...

As I am writing, we are about to enter the fourth week of the spring 2025 semester at Valencia College. As a professor who teaches U.S. Government and State and Local Politics classes, my recent ...

Briskman said the lower court got it right, and even with a criminal record, Briskman argued Flores still has rights. “Stripping people of Second Amendment rights because of a criminal history ...

The 14th Amendment was adopted in 1864 to ensure that newly freed slaves had the same rights and privileges under the law as any other citizen.

The amendment's bifurcated construction mirrors other famous documents of the era. The Virginia Declaration of Rights, often considered the foundation of the Bill of Rights, also used the ...