Legal scholars say President Joe Biden might be right about the Equal Rights Amendment — but his declaration on Friday has no legal significance. In a surprise move on his way out of office, Biden proclaimed that the amendment has met the requirements for ratification and is now part of the Constitution.

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

The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the

President Joe Biden announced on Friday that he considers the Equal Rights Amendment to have been ratified. His statement “affirm[ed] what I believe and what three-fourths of the states have ratified: the 28th Amendment is the law of the land,

The Equal Rights Amendment, which would prohibit discrimination based on gender, was sent to the states for ratification in 1972. Congress set a deadline of 1979 for three-quarters of state legislatures to ratify the amendment, then extended it to 1982.

U.S. President Joe Biden called the Equal Rights Amendment "the law of the land," on Friday, backing an effort to enshrine the change into the U.S. Constitution even though it long ago failed to secure the approval of enough states to become an amendment.

President Biden says he believes the amendment has met the requirements to be enshrined in the Constitution. Its history has been long and complex.

The ERA’s deadline expired decades ago, but the president argues that recent approvals by three states put the amendment over the top.

The dedication ceremony for a memorial honoring Kansas women who fought for the right to vote will take place at noon on Kansas Day, Wednesday, Jan. 29, in the first-floor Rotunda of the Kansas Capitol.

The Democrats who backed Joe Biden's imaginary 28th Amendment have lost the right to complain about authoritarianism and threats to democracy.

Kristina Estle, director of the Underground Railroad Museum, wants area residents to remember and understand the cause that Martin Luther King Jr. fought to advance. As the nation honors the fallen leader by observing Martin Luther King Jr.