President Biden should order the National Archivist to publish and certify the Equal Rights Amendment. I doubt it'll hold up in the courts, and I don't care. Make it a problem for the GOP. Force them to explain why women aren't equal in our Constitution. What is there to lose?
@charlotteclymer Im tempted to write my representatives about this but I dont actually know the role of the National Archivist and what it means to publish/certify in this context.
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Yes. There’s even support for it in the military.
@charlotteclymer “comity” or “respect for norms” are the usual excuses for doing fuck all to actually exercise power, rather than just hoarding it.
For some reason Biden is absolutely loathe to do anything that might allow Trump or Republicans to make themselves look bad.
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Biden is a traditionalist when it comes to procedure and bureaucracy. He stays within the systems. He would never step out for this-- but I sure wish he would.
@charlotteclymer isn't the holdup on the ERA the states ratifying it? I'm not sure Biden can EO this.
@xinit @charlotteclymer enough have ratified but the leg is pretending there is some deadline that was missed.
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No, it got enough states to be ratified. Biden is the hold up.
He won't. He likes to save his powder for extricating his family from the system instead of strengthening human rights.
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@charlotteclymer it is surprising to me coming from India that I find that the American constitution doesn't consider women as equal to me. Surprisingly, that is not true in Indian Constitution.
Who would have thought that the world's most advanced nation and a progressive society would have such a regressive constitution.
@ranjeethmd @charlotteclymer "Most advanced" is a slippery slope for any country, and it is difficult to compare countries overall. Add another layer - how this is being reflected into everyday life - for good measure. But I would say the easiest is to listen to women around us... the issue is global, zero doubt about that!
@charlotteclymer Biden doesn’t give a shit about women lol
@charlotteclymer there are a lot of things that we could ask what do the Democrats have to lose. Is the inaction generally out of disorganization, lack of commitment to espoused principles, fear of losing some voters (so some strategic basis), entrenched party hierarchy making decisions, or actual collusion with the GOP?