President Joe Biden announced on Friday that he considers the Equal Rights Amendment to have been ratified. His statement “affirm[ed] what I believe and what three-fourths of the states have ratified: the 28th Amendment is the law of the land,

President Biden says he believes the amendment has met the requirements to be enshrined in the Constitution. Its history has been long and complex.

Did Florida ever ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, the 1972 amendment that declared women equal under the law?

President Joe Biden has weighed in on the decades-long Equal Rights Amendment debate, but does his statement hold any weight? Experts say no.

Presidents have no direct role in approving constitutional amendments. So what could President Biden’s pronouncement recognizing a new one actually do?

The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the

The ERA’s deadline expired decades ago, but the president argues that recent approvals by three states put the amendment over the top.

The Democrat’s statement, coming days before he is replaced by Donald Trump, is unlikely to have any impact. Presidents do not have any role in the amendment process.