President Joe Biden announced on Friday that the amendment of equal rights must be considered an additional addition to the US constitution, and he made a symbolic statement that is unlikely to change the continuous efforts for decades for gender equality.
“It has been a long time to admit the will of the American people,” President Biden said. “In compliance with my department and my duty towards the constitution and the country, I confirm what I believe in and what I believe in three quarters of the states: the twenty -eighth amendment is the Law of the Earth, which guarantees all Americans equal rights and protection under the law regardless of that.” Of their sex. “
Equal rights, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, was sent to the states to ratify it in 1972. Congress set a final date in 1979 for three -quarters of the legislative councils in the states to ratify the amendment, and then extended it to 1982.
But it was not until 2020, when legislators in Virginia amended the amendment, with 38 states. The archives said that Congress or courts should change the deadline for considering the amendment as approved.
As a result, the Democrat’s statement, which comes a few days before his replacement with Republican Donald Trump, may have no effect. The presidents have no role in the modification process. The head of the National Archive had said earlier that the amendment could not be ratified because it was not ratified before the deadline set by Congress.
On Friday, the national archive reiterated this position, saying that “basic legal and procedural cases have not changed.”
A senior official in the Biden administration, who spoke provided that his identity was not disclosed because he was not authorized to discuss the White House plans, that Biden did not direct the archive secretary to ratify the amendment, avoiding it could have become a legal battle over the separation of the authorities.
Activists gathered outside the national archive to celebrate President Biden’s statement and invited the archive secretary to take the necessary measures.
“Do your work,” said Zakia Thomas, ERA president, said. “The president did what he is.”
Claudia Nashiga, a leader in the Women’s Youth Party, said that ratification of amending equal rights would refer to “the beginning of a new American era that gives us a combat opportunity to survive in the second presidency of Trump.”
This story mentioned the Associated Press.
