Any Democrat or liberal group that indulged former President Joe Biden‘s attempt to amend the Constitution unilaterally should never again be listened to about threats to democracy or fighting authoritarianism.
Biden declared that the “Equal Rights Amendment” is now the 28th Amendment to the Constitution and is “the law of the land.” The ERA was a proposed amendment that failed to reach ratification by Congress’s self-imposed deadline of 1979 (and the Congressionally-extended deadline of 1982). The U.S. archivist correctly concluded that the amendment is dead as it currently stands, as did Biden’s own Justice Department in 2022.
Biden and his team knew that this declaration was ridiculous. They knew that his words weren’t binding and that the ERA had failed (Biden was 40 years old in 1982). Yet, Biden and the Democrats who supported this want to purposely muddy the legal waters, urging people to treat the amendment as real and ratified so they can file lawsuits based on it and, when the Supreme Court inevitably shoots it down, complain that the court must be “reformed” with multiple new liberal justices.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is one such example. Gillibrand has been pushing Biden to do this for years and ramped up her efforts again during his lame duck months after the election. For Gillibrand, it’s all about abortion. As she said on X, “Now, women living in states with restrictions on their reproductive freedoms can – and should – file suits to overturn these unconstitutional laws that discriminate on the basis of sex.”
Gillibrand was joined by former Vice President (and possibly future governor of California) Kamala Harris and Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) in declaring this imaginary amendment the “law of the land” and “officially recognized” as the 28th Amendment. Biden also touted that the move has the support of the American Bar Association.
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That should be permanently disqualifying for the opinions of every one of these supporters. This wasn’t just some empty political stunt on Biden’s way out the door. It was an intentional, nefarious attempt to undermine the rule of law and poison the legal system to whip up hysteria and enthusiasm from abortion fanatics. Harris, Gillibrand, and Duckworth should never again be taken seriously on any question of “authoritarianism” or the rule of law, and the liberals at the ABA should not be humored when they try to insert themselves into debates about judicial nominees or anything else.
Biden’s presidency was as corrupt and authoritarian as Democrats said Trump’s was and will be, and every Democrat that went along with it has lost the right to be taken seriously. They are pro-authoritarian hypocrites who want the law to be bent to their whims, no matter the consequences of their sabotage of the legal process.