Parting shot
This is an act so silly, I’m going to assume it was a 26-year-old comms intern who came up with it.
To recap, the ERA (born in 1923(!)) made it through the House and Senate in the early Seventies and was sent to the States for final approval. There was a hard deadline of 1979 built in to the text (later extended with dubious legitimacy to 1982).
It need 38 and it got there, but only after both deadlines had passed. The last one was Virginia in 2020. Some states that voted to ratify it voted to rescind after the deadline passed (nobody knows if they can do that). It’s a mess. The one certain thing is that constitutional amendments have nothing to do with the president.
The irony is, one of the questions that soured women on the ERA was the possibility it would make separate bathrooms unconstitutional (the big one, of course, was the draft).
This executive flourish is so stupid, I don’t think the Supreme Court will even bother. I wonder if he’ll try any other foolishness on his way out the door.
Posted: January 17th, 2025 under personal.
Comments: 9
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Comment from bds
Time: January 17, 2025, 6:29 pm
Already a community note explaining that Biden’s declaration is just a fart in the wind.
Comment from durnedyankee
Time: January 17, 2025, 6:48 pm
The answer to your wondering is – 3 days, so YES, he’ll do some other Unconstitutionally stupid wishcasting shit as if he’s the flucking king.
He has an Obama phone!
Comment from Mark Matis
Time: January 17, 2025, 9:11 pm
Smart money says he’ll resign and appoint Commiemala as pResident!
The real question is how many snipers have the CIA, the FBI, and the DoJ funded and trained to kill President Trump before he can be sworn in?
Comment from skandia recluse
Time: January 17, 2025, 9:23 pm
… All these many years I thought the Equal Rights Act was the law of the land!
Comment from aelfheld
Time: January 17, 2025, 11:54 pm
Off-topic, ’cause they’re lovely: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery/2024-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place?tags=ed.current & https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery/2024-twist-and-jump?tags=ed.current
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: January 18, 2025, 2:45 am
@Mark Matis — If Joey were really smart¹ he wouldn’t resign but die instead. Death is right-by-golly-NOW and there’s no undoing it. Resignation is so wishy-washy.
1. He’s not.
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: January 18, 2025, 4:02 am
Dead Joe?
Oh lord no, then we’d have the worst President and the former Worst President both laying around Washington in the rotunda at the same time while the 3rd Worst President sat in his Kalorama basement, issuing last minute commands to his various government pansy divisions like Hitler in his bunker before he loses complete power on Monday.
Comment from Tim Carlson
Time: January 18, 2025, 7:09 pm
Foolishness? From Joe Biden and/or Kamala Harris?
Yeah, I expect a mega-dump of bullshyte at about 11am Monday morning. The interns in the White House are gonna try to leave a permanent mark.
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