President Biden's declaration that 'the Equal Rights Amendment is now the law of the land' is a misstatement, as he lacks the power to alter the Constitution alone.
The Equal Rights Amendment, first proposed by Alice Paul in 1923, has faced a long struggle for approval and was initially ratified by Congress in 1972.
Despite recent state ratifications pushing the ERA to 38 endorsements, legal challenges and time limits hinder its formal acceptance into the Constitution.
Advocates for the ERA have argued that the time limit set by Congress is unconstitutional, akin to amendments that were adopted without such constraints.
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