Joe Biden finally left office.
America’s long national nightmare is over.
But Joe Biden left one booby trap for Donald Trump that will leave you red with rage.
Joe Biden seizes power to declare Equal Rights Amendment ratified
The Equal Rights Amendment is the crown jewel of the radical feminist agenda.
It sounds harmless enough.
The Equal Rights Amendment states that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
These rights are already guaranteed under the Constitution.
The Equal Rights Amendment is nothing less than codifying DEI into the Constitution.
Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972 and set a seven-year deadline for the requisite 38 states to ratify it.
That deadline was then extended to 1982.
It came and went and the Equal Rights Amendment failed to reach the threshold of three-quarters of the states ratifying it.
Virginia became the 38th state in 2020, nearly 40 years after the deadline passed.
On December 17, 2024, the archivist of the United States wrote that she couldn’t certify the Equal Rights Amendment as ratified since the Office of Legal Counsel’s opinion was that the deadline for ratification expired.
If the archivist can’t certify an amendment, it can’t be part of the Constitution.
Yet on his way out the door, Biden added another disgraceful line to his resume by usurping dictatorial power to declare the Equal Rights Amendment ratified by executive fiat.
“Today I’m affirming what I have long believed and what three-fourths of the states have ratified: The 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex,” Biden posted on social media.
Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of civics knows the President can’t just amend the Constitution via social media decree.
But Biden seized this power grab for a very specific reason.
As soon Biden announced the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution, the Left’s legal institutions began weighing in.
The American Bar Association – which played a supposedly nonpartisan role in judicial confirmations by rating nominees as qualified or not – released a statement announcing it would recognize the Equal Rights Amendment as the law of the land.
“The American Bar Association (ABA) has recognized that the Equal Rights Amendment has cleared all necessary hurdles to be formally added to the Constitution as the 28th Amendment,” The American Bar Association’s statement read.
#ACTUALNEWS POTUS: “The American Bar Association (ABA) has recognized that the Equal Rights Amendment has cleared all necessary hurdles to be formally added to the Constitution as the 28th Amendment.” pic.twitter.com/yO8yIw2XZk
— Olga Nesterova (@onestpress) January 17, 2025
Georgetown Law Professor Victoria Nourse concurred.
Congratulations to #GeorgetownLaw Professor @vicnourse on her decades of hard work advocating on behalf of women’s rights and the Equal Rights Amendment #ERA, which Pres. Biden this morning said should be considered the law of the land. Read more: https://t.co/g2pFPEmfAU https://t.co/xD10B08oZJ
— Georgetown Law (@GeorgetownLaw) January 17, 2025
The American Bar Association and Professor Nourse know better.
But they added their institutional might behind Biden’s scheme so some left-wing group could sue once Donald Trump became President and announced that Biden’s folly had as much the force of law as if he’d said the winds aren’t allowed to blow.
The Supreme Court would reject Biden claiming he could just announce Constitutional amendments ratified.
But because the American Bar Association and a professor at a prestigious law school announced Biden’s decree lawful, the Left could fume that the conservative majority on the Supreme Court was acting “political,” and it would add momentum to the calls on the Left to pack the Supreme Court the next time the Democrat Party controlled the White House and Congress.
