Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was correct when she said, before she passed, that the ERA deadline is expired, and this has to “start over.”

Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, setting a presidential record.

Speaking to the Conference of Mayors Friday, President Joe Biden said the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered a ratified addition to the U.S.

“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,” Biden wrote. “I agree with the ABA and with leading legal constitutional scholars that the Equal Rights Amendment has become part of our Constitution.

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The outgoing president’s move is mostly symbolic, but he has given the push for the 28th Amendment some new momentum.

On his first day in office, Carter issued an executive order pardoning more than 200,000 men who evaded the Vietnam draft.

But what matters, legal experts say, is what Biden didn’t do: He didn’t order the archivist of the United States to formally publish the amendment. And he didn’t direct the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel to withdraw its written opinion that the deadline for ratification expired long ago.

The president’s accomplishments are considerable, but on his signature issue of preserving democracy, he failed spectacularly.

President Joe Biden said Friday that he believes the Equal Rights Amendment, which guarantees equal protections regardless of sex, is the “law of the land” but stopped short of ordering the U.S. archivist to publish the constitutional amendment.

A bipartisan bill banning TikTok was passed by Congress and signed into law by Biden last year. While Trump previously called for a ban on the app due to its ties to the Chinese government, he has more recently been opposed to the ban and indicated that he will seek to reverse it.

President Biden is leaving office after a single term that many Americans regard as unsuccessful. But it could be viewed more favorably over time.