On Friday, President Joe Biden declared that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which bans discrimination based on sex, is part of the Constitution and will be added as the 28th Amendment.
“The American Bar Association (ABA) has recognized that the Equal Rights Amendment has cleared all necessary hurdles to be formally added to the Constitution as the 28th Amendment. I agree with the ABA and with leading legal constitutional scholars that the ERA has become part of our Constitution,” said Biden.
Congress approved the ERA in 1972 with a seven-year deadline for states to sign onto the law as a Constitutional Amendment.
In 2020, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the Amendment.
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