Biden declares that he believes the Equal Rights Amendment has met the requirements of ratification and therefore is part of the Constitution. But he is not ordering the archivist to take the final stage of formally publishing it. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/u... - ThreadSky

peterbakernyt.bsky.social • 62 days ago

Biden declares that he believes the Equal Rights Amendment has met the requirements of ratification and therefore is part of the Constitution. But he is not ordering the archivist to take the final stage of formally publishing it. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/us/politics/equal-rights-amendment-constitution-biden.html

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s0m3f00l.bsky.social•62 days ago

Biden is the most half hearted president of my lifetime. How he reached the presidency seems way more to do with trumps faults than his merits. He doesn't seem to have any power to change anything in the system he directly influences and is powerless to change the system himself.

ragusky.bsky.social•62 days ago

Honestly he deserves to lose

jamiesueaustin.bsky.social•61 days ago

Without teeth, a law is useless. I look forward to the day I'm considered a whole person under the law.

lori4242.bsky.social•62 days ago

"Gesture without motion; form without substance..."

clarissalv.bsky.social•62 days ago

Not helpful

booksartmusic.bsky.social•62 days ago

Biden only seems to do the half assed minimum. He can never do 100%

jerzeegirl2000.bsky.social•62 days ago

There is an argument whether the deadlines established are valid and some courts have said they are. AND the archivist has refused to publish the ERA.

mrcrickets.bsky.social•62 days ago

Dems LOVE the appearance of doing something without the actual doing something.

vlevings.bsky.social•62 days ago

Why not publish?

janus303.bsky.social•62 days ago

Because Trump will rescind it, and there will be nobody left with standing to defend it. Same reason Biden pulled back a bunch of rules that hadn’t been finalized.

triciadmwarner.bsky.social•62 days ago

But for history sake, he should publish it and then let the record show that Trump took this away from women.

janus303.bsky.social•62 days ago

Sure if your goal is to let the record showroom or away from women. If your goal is ratifying the ERA and not throwing women under the bus to make a political statement, then you don’t force a legal fight that nobody will be left to engage in.

triciadmwarner.bsky.social•62 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/joyannreid.bsky.social/post/3lfxghz4wic27

janus303.bsky.social•62 days ago

It’s very decided law.

janus303.bsky.social•62 days ago

I don’t take con law from joy Reid and neither should you

janus303.bsky.social•62 days ago

*to let the record show Trump took it away

plaintanjane.bsky.social•62 days ago

Exactly. If President Biden used an EO, Trump would rescind it, but if the Archivist chose to publish it based on Biden’s official notice, could Trump make him/her remove that from the archives?

https://bsky.app/profile/plaintanjane.bsky.social/post/3lfx4io4gys22

deeply-stated.bsky.social•62 days ago

Nah, the GOP has spent 45 years rebuilding the judiciary to do the dirty work. Some Koch-funded non-profit would run a case up to the Supreme Court and the untouchable political appointees on the bench would kill it, using RBG's words as their weapon.

https://www.vox.com/2020/2/11/21133029/ruth-bader-ginsburg-equal-rights-amendment-supreme-court

stevedavis1948.bsky.social•62 days ago

Go for it, Joe!

gdel.bsky.social•62 days ago

Useless

johnnyb1965.bsky.social•61 days ago

Why is he not doing it? It’s almost you know what I’m at the point to believe and I don’t believe in conspiracy theories, but it’s almost as if the Democrats brought snowballs to a knife fight

gloria6262.bsky.social•62 days ago

MISTAKE

orjoyce.bsky.social•62 days ago

Just do it Joe!

pjbdc.bsky.social•62 days ago

Perhaps we could ask her to do so.... https://www.archives.gov/contact

lluttig.bsky.social•62 days ago

Good idea! So I did.

ragusky.bsky.social•62 days ago

If this was something Trump wanted, he wud have gotten it down a long time ago or fought for it real hard instead of “consulting dozens of constitution scholars” as the article says. Such a wimp.

qdave.bsky.social•62 days ago

Typical Biden Reticence.

reluctantmonk.bsky.social•62 days ago

So... why not order the archivist to do that? Honestly, ratifying the ERA is possibly the only way Biden can salvage his legacy.

uscivilwar.bsky.social•62 days ago

She will refuse, because the ERA did not pass. Joe Biden knows this.

morristownbob.bsky.social•62 days ago

Coward

davehaddy.bsky.social•62 days ago

Where in Article V does it require the archivist to publish?

greatfausto.bsky.social•62 days ago

The vote for Trump shows America doesn’t agree that women are equal to men

jerzeegirl2000.bsky.social•62 days ago

Didn't the archivist already refuse to publish it?

liminalatlaw.bsky.social•62 days ago

Yes.

jaguar1024.bsky.social•62 days ago

Democrats in a nutshell, all promises, no action. THIS is why trump won.

resistingautocracy.bsky.social•62 days ago

*sigh*

catsclaw.bsky.social•62 days ago

So Biden gets to piss off the right by being "woke" and piss off the left by making a gesture that's literally meaningless. Brilliant strategy, 10/10, no notes.

waterly.bsky.social•62 days ago

For women, Biden caused more damage than good. The trumpeted positives offset his horrific damage, like attacking Anita Hill to put Thomas on the Supreme Court, being unable to mumble the word Abortion, or this toothless, last-moment stunt. The ultimate ego-based and marginal mansplainer is gone.

jaderydererhard.bsky.social•62 days ago

Probably too late for him to do anything constructive on it. However, he could sign more pardons or commutations.

alans9.bsky.social•62 days ago

Of course not

doom-scroller24.bsky.social•61 days ago

All he needs to do is call the archivist. Is he unable to talk?

doom-scroller24.bsky.social•62 days ago

That is so fucking stupid

chuckgeerhart.bsky.social•62 days ago

Got milquetoast?

jasong69.bsky.social•62 days ago

Sums up Democrats very well. All talk, little action. I have zero faith that any democrat can do a damn thing but have their ass handed to them.

plaintanjane.bsky.social•62 days ago

Isn’t an official statement from POTUS considered an official notice, or does it need to be an EO?

“Whenever official notice is received at the NARA that any amendment proposed to the Constitution of the US has been adopted, according to the provisions of the Constitution, the Archivist…”