President Joe Biden on Friday made the bizarre proclamation that the proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution was ratified by 38 states to become part of the U.S. Constitution, an announcement that is legally dead wrong and a disgraceful disservice to the country and the rule of law.
The Constitution requires that any amendment must be proposed by both two-thirds of the House (290) and two-thirds of the Senate (67). After that, a majority (over 50 percent) in the legislatures of three-fourths of the states (38) must vote to ratify the proposed amendment to make it part of the Constitution. All this has happened only 27 times in American history, starting with the Bill of Rights in 1791.
