The move has no immediate legal force but will likely spark lawsuits that advocates hope will restore abortion rights.
Instead of striking a balance between conservative and progressive takes on religious freedom, Biden mostly toed the party line.
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Biden Proclaims That The Equal Rights Amendment Is The Law Of The Land—But What Does That Mean?
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Biden says Equal Rights Amendment is ratified, kicking off expected legal battle as he pushes through final executive actions
Biden declares the ERA the law of the land — but it likely will not matter
President Joe Biden on Friday declared that the Equal Rights Amendment is the law of the land, attempting to ratify a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in a last-ditch effort to protect women’s reproductive rights.
An incoming new president and state legislative sessions ramping up are likely to bring more changes to abortion policy across the U.S., which is still settling after the seismic shift in 2022 when the U.
Biden’s domestic policy adviser says Trump avoided pledges to overhaul the Affordable Care Act and other health programs — but changes are coming anyway.
During his four years as president, Democrat Joe Biden experienced a sustained series of defeats at the U.S. Supreme Court, whose ascendant conservative majority blew holes in his agenda and dashed precedents long cherished by American liberals.
Unlike that of his only Catholic predecessor in the job, John F. Kennedy, Biden’s Catholicism, White said, “was embedded both in his persona growing up, in the tragedies that have marked his life. It is a huge part of his persona, in a way that’s unlike Kennedy, who was quite private.”
Biden’s record of promises kept, promises broken and compromises is roughly equally split between the three categories, according to PolitiFact.
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