Andrew Morrow
Just before US President Donald Trump returned to his rightful place on January 20, the outgoing Joe Biden administration decided to add just a couple more entries to the catalog of egregious and/or maliciously stupid actions it has filled out over the past four years. One of these, in particular, practically gift-wrapped Trump the ability to remake the country in a way that hasn’t been seriously considered for generations.
Opening up a dump truck of worms
On Friday afternoon, January 17, in the final business hours available to the Biden administration, staffers posted a bizarre and bewildering series of tweets. (I won’t say Biden did, since the man can hardly string two sentences together, and him managing his own tweets would be too great a stretch of the imagination.) These posts purported to amend the constitution by declaring the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) enacted.
The ERA was one of those left-wing policy experiments that cropped up in the 1970s which, had it passed, would have removed any legal distinction between the sexes. This may sound like a good thing, but it would not have been if you think about it for about ten seconds. For example, if the ERA had passed, sex-specific restrooms would not ever be a thing. Nevertheless, it got a lot of traction, but it failed to clear the required number of state ratifications before the legal deadline and was dropped.
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