You leftists are faaaaar too demanding of Biben! Think for just a second about what he'd have to do to enshrine equal rights: he'd have to sign the document. With a pen. With his name. The motherfucker couldn't draw a clock right now; how's he supposed to write?!
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Can you tell me more about the march that was basically erased from the media? Or post a link?
Wait Joe Biden doesn't need to do anything. The Amendment already exists in a superposition of ratified and non-ratified; there just haven't been any legal challenges to test its existence in the eyes of the reactionary courts. What the fuck.
Adding it to the pile of evidence for "democrats are not interested in doing good things even if it would help them win".
After all the shit that's come down the past few years, and especially the past 6 months, I'm pretty much convinced it's intentional at this point. These blood thirsty freaks are all on the same side and they're just taking the mask off.
Do we have a formal list of these somewhere?
No but we fucking should. Who wants to get on that?
Regretfully, no. For me it's just whatever random list of bullshit I can pull out of my brain soup at any given time.
Breaking News: Biden signs executive order mandating that nobody compare him to a cold bowl of Cream of Wheat
I'm sorry but if he did that now what would the dems dangle in front of you in 2028?
Queer ~~prisoners~~ citizens getting 1000 calories a day, up from the previous 600 from camp administration.
People with at least 50% white ancestry and three years good behavior getting an appeals process for race based interment, on condition of sterilization
Kill cams on ed209
Free healthcare and minimum wage increases again?
Oh? But have you that of the parmesantarian?
yeah but if they pass the equal rights amendment gendered bathrooms would be abolished and we can't have that :////
Not really. The ERA not being passed is not a personnel issue, rather it is a systemic one. This website for whatever reason seems to love great man theory for heads of state and ignores backing and other parties involved. The president has no role in amending the condition and he has no power de jure on this front. You could argue that he could marshal congress to pass this, but the current iteration of US politics is explicitly designed to avoid any sort of large majority block to protect capital. The president is not the one steering the ship, he is just a figurehead for capital.
The president is not the one steering the ship, [gender] is just a figurehead for capital.
Normally, yes, but there are specific measures Biden could have done (obviously with the compliance of individuals in his party and administration).
Biden could have, at any time, directed the archivist to certify it, making an official statement that his DOJ believes states cannot rescind ratifications, if he wanted.
Earlier, when Democrats had control of both houses of Congress in the 117th (instead of waiting until they lost the House), his administration could have followed in the steps of the very belatedly ratified 27th Amendment and also made it a policy point to ask Congress to pass concurrent resolutions declaring that the amendment was validly ratified.
Doesn't adding an amendment to the Constitution require 2/3s of the states to ratify it? That would never happen.
It did happen, in 2020 while Trump was president. Virginia was the 38th state to ratify it. It's been three years and the administration has not added it to the constitution despite it meeting the requirements
Oh, didn't know. The fact that it's not automatically added to the Constitution after getting enough states to ratify it is some real great democracy. Of course we need the ghoul in charge to let us have the thing we approved.
There's a bit of constitutional debate over whether it meets the requirements, because some states alleged their ratifications could expire or be repealed, and obviously the libs will just side with the conservatives, just like the constitutional debate about Trump being ineligible for office due to the "insurrection" according to 14th Amendment
And as someone else mentioned there was a time limit that the archivist is hem-hawing over too. It's kind of just a bullshit thing though that Dems are respecting because of "law and order"
I don't think this is true? The ERA hasn't been passed because the required number of states failed to ratify it before the time limit ran out.
The time limit was put in serious legal question, it's being used as an excuse but it's not even remotely an actual roadblock
Edit: not to mention the whole "everything the president does is legal" thing lmao
The “everything the president does is legal” thing really does change a lot