Leaving aside the fact that this isn't how the amendment process works, why did he wait almost 60 years?
He's desperately wanting to take credit for something impressive since nearly his entire legacy is set to be undone.
It should be the law of the land,
I thought it met the threshold for ratification finally a few years back, or is there some roadblock I don't know about now.
I could have sworn it already was the law of the land.
Then again, the democrats are nothing but the department of redundancy department.
I have a headache from how ridiculous this is.
First of all, I don't see anything in the constitution to suggest that women aren't guaranteed the same rights as men and I think it's rather insulting actually that some people still refuse to accept that women are humans and anything considered a human right would apply to us too by default.
Whatever.
More relevantly, this isn't even a little bit how constitutional changes work. The president has absolutely zero authority over this. None. Nada. Zilch. Nothing. This is just a statement. It's not a constitutional change, it's not a law, it's not even an executive order. This is completely meaningless. What the fuck is the point of this. Sometimes I think the people running that White House really do think the American people are stupid.
Yeah let’s not have the ERA, thanks.
I happen to think it’s a good thing that women aren’t eligible for the draft and we can - in most states at least - have women-only bathrooms and changing rooms.
The ERA had a ratification deadline: June 30th, 1982. It is LONG since passed, and they did not make it to the 38 states required.
A symbolic ratification by any state after that deadline means nothing constitutionally. People can whine and argue all they like, but the proposal of the ERA specifically included a deadline (which was even extended 3 extra years). They didn’t meet it. Either reintroduce it and have CURRENT state legislatures ratify it, or kick rocks.
And obviously ACG is right, the president has no authority in this matter and even pretending to have any is (1) a sign of his mental decline and/or (2) yet another attempt at executive overreach which could only be excused by the disturbingly large number of Americans who have no civics education.


























