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Thank you. I'm already reading comments from naysayers who are complaining that he didn't do this (spend political capital when that was in short supply) years ago, or that he didn't give it to the archivist, or that he picked the wrong archivist. I'm SO DONE with political purists who never give President Biden credit for *anything* and who helped deny us President Harris because she wasn't good enough for them.

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I agree. And it's finally in our Constitution that we are not less than according to the law anymore!

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Better late than never, I say.

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Here here Laurie!

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Interesting. I just picked up my grand daughter from college and gave her the great news. After fist bumps and cheers she Said exactly the same thing.

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I agree wholeheartedly. Biden ALWAYS makes a mistake or worse in everything he does in majority of Americans' eyes.

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Eyes that--at least for Dems--read or watched it on MSM. Because MSM was obediently parroting the initial lead of FOX News and RW media in demonizing it for anti-woke...reasons.

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Thank you Professor Tribe the Contrarian! This is HUGE and the mainstream media is focused on other things today!

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And Prof. Sullivan -- who, among many other things, carries on and updates the important work of the late Prof. Gerald Gunther.

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And I first heard it here.👀🎶👍😃

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FINALLY. A hallelujah moment just ahead of the worst person on earth's inauguration. He can pound sand.

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Thank you, President Biden! I remember as a woman in my 20s being absolutely devastated when the ERA was not ratified within the arbitrary timeframe that Congress had established. I am grateful to have lived to see its long overdue addition to The Constitution.

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I agree. I marched for the ERA in the early 70’s. I am so happy about today’s announcement. I didn’t think that I would live to see this. It’s about time and in the nick of time!

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I did too!! Today is wonderful!!❤️💜💙💗🖤💛💚🤎🩶🩵

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Thank you Mr President 💙💙💙💙💙👏👏👏👏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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WOW!!!!! I've been waiting almost 50 years, since my 20's, for this to happen. I was praying that President Biden would do it, before it was too late. I am SO happy, and relieved.

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I have always felt that unless and until we had an ERA Amendment, any and all other quests for equal stature of any "minority" concerns under the law and Constitution would struggle to be seriously validated/considered! What a marvelous step forward that we can all stand ever so proudly for!! The future is ours!!

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Wow I am Gobsmacked. Yay! President Biden. Rock on

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Tell the truth and shame the Republican devils

Great to see Biden playing politics, not just governing. The Republicans are left with putting another nail in the palms of women, nailing them to a cross, and taking away more freedom, more rights when they challenge passage.

Trump’s Treasury Nominee said yesterday that nothing is more important than passing tax cuts. He also said there would be no increase to the Minimum Wage that has been unchanged since 2009. That seems an easy target for Dems to attack.

Sen. Tubberville just said CA doesn’t deserve to be bailed out by other states. CA has a balance of payments TO the federal government of $84B. Tubberville’s state, AL, has a a balance of payments FROM the federal government of $68B. That’s a difference of $152B. Again, another chance to point out the abject hypocrisy and to educate the public.

Stop playing by Marquis de Queensberry rules.

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We need people in congress and at the state levels who aren't constrained by obsolete "norms". This is a new era that demands new strategies and tactical approaches. Accepting any of the nonsense the republican party is trying to shove through is absurd. Tubberville's rhetoric, like trump's is an attempt to further divide and incite civil wars.

I would love to see Pete Buttigieg organize and unite a resistance movement. He's intelligent, eloquent, articulate with impeccable integrity. I would march beside him any day.

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Time to fight dirty!

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We do not have to fight dirty. We do have to fight strategically and be willing to play the long game.

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Within the confines of the law, we must strategize short term and long term goals. We’re behind the curve significantly due to the decades of strategizing and implementation of gerrymandering, grooming jurists and state level politics by the Heritage Foundation. There has to be a serious sense of urgency. Right now, today, call, e-mail and write to your representatives to express that urgency. Tell them it’s their duty to push back and start honoring the oath they took.

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Bravo!! Long overdue. I'll bet Drumpf tries to overturn it.

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He won't be able to, but chances are he won't obey it.

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You're right, of course, Celeste. You're also right that he won't obey or support it.

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He will surely try. Get the popcorn ready, there will be a big legal fight.

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The legal battle will take time, and I hope in the interim, women everywhere will show up for the 2026 election to get people in Congress who will stand up for us and defend our rights.

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Finally, the ERA is law! Another of Biden's many great deeds accomplished.

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Now we need to work on having the same rite to our body as men have to theirs...eg. fixing bent carrot disease

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According to the latest constitutional amendment. we ought to be able to safeguard our reproductive rights, or deny men theirs...pick one!

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an interesting thought. I think men should be denied theirs...just long enough to know what it feels like.

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yes! i am hoping women, organizers, groups, states use this amendment to push for our rights to our own bodies. this could be the next step we needed.

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How 'bout both? Maybe that would reduce the number of rapes and molestations that men inflict on women and girls.

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can't we have both ?

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The ERA does THAT?!!

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key wording, ought to be able

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Praying hands! (I don't know how to do emojis here.)

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YES!!!

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This is excellent news! Better late than never!

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Thank you President Biden!!!

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"After careful consideration and consultation with constitutional experts, President Biden – like the American Bar Association last year – concluded that the ERA had met all the requirements for inclusion in the Constitution. He decided that the Oath of Office he took upon assuming the presidency – the Oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” – meant that he should formally announce that conclusion to the world."

Wow!

Happy day!

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I am so ignorant. Does President Biden's proclamation mean it IS in the Constitution as a fully, properly approved Amendment? And does the Archivist's refusal to publish have any role in that?

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The Constitution doesn’t even mention the National Archivist, much less give him or her any authority to determine what amendments go in the Constitution.

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It already is the 28th Amendment. The publishing part, I believe, is what held it up. Read above what Mr. Tribe wrote about the Archivist.

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Sandi, I honestly doubt you're ignorant -- more likely confused, as I am. I'll have to re-read Profs. Sullivan and Tribe's piece above, but from my first quick reading they seem to say it's now enshrined in the Constitution, but it may be subject to legal challenge --???

Edit: here's my confusion, directly from their piece:

"We welcome debate on the political and moral pros and cons of keeping the ERA alive rather than letting it fade from memory until Congress is again willing to propose similar language for the states to consider – a wait that could be many decades long. And others can debate the implications for the Biden legacy and even the eventual outcome of the multifaceted litigation likely to ensue."

If it's now the 28th Amendment, why is it subject to "likely litigation"?

As to the Archivist's role they seem to say there isn't one.

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Let them litigate. I double dog dare them. They'd have to go on record saying that women are less than.

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They’ve already done that, through <waves hands> everything they do and say.

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My question as well, Doug. I feel rather thick as others seem to understand.

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I’m confused as well. Is this an executive order? Doesn’t you need it writing in the constitution Or it already in the constitution in between the lines.

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No. It is a constitutional Amendment having met the threshold of 38 states ratifying it!

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