The move has no immediate legal force but will likely spark lawsuits that advocates hope will restore abortion rights.

President Joe Biden, center, Vice President Kamala Harris, right, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, left, at the 60th inaugural ceremonies on January 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. (photo: Tom Brenner/The Washington Post / Getty )

If Biden really wanted to make the ERA the “law of the land,” he would have needed to direct the head of the National Archives to ignore the Department of Justice. But he didn't do that—or really anything for women's rights during his presidency.

The president’s announcement on Friday was one of many sweeping executive moves he’s making in his final days in office.

An incoming new president and state legislative sessions ramping up are likely to bring more changes to abortion policy across the U.S., which is still settling after the seismic shift in 2022 when the U.

Instead of striking a balance between conservative and progressive takes on religious freedom, Biden mostly toed the party line.

President Joe Biden announced a major opinion Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment is ratified, enshrining its protections into the Constitution, a last-minute move that some believe could pave the way to bolstering reproductive rights.

Biden’s domestic policy adviser says Trump avoided pledges to overhaul the Affordable Care Act and other health programs — but changes are coming anyway.

President Joe Biden on Friday declared that the Equal Rights Amendment is the law of the land, attempting to ratify a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in a last-ditch effort to protect women’s reproductive rights.

Unlike that of his only Catholic predecessor in the job, John F. Kennedy, Biden’s Catholicism, White said, “was embedded both in his persona growing up, in the tragedies that have marked his life. It is a huge part of his persona, in a way that’s unlike Kennedy, who was quite private.”

President Joe Biden’s Friday announcement declaring the Equal Rights Amendment part of the U.S. Constitution is reviving long-simmering tensions in the abortion-rights movement about the ...

His positions on abortion have sometimes been inconsistent. But no matter where he lands on some issues, his administration will be a contrast with President Joe Biden, who has favored abortion ...