On the law, this is a complete farce. The law, the Constitution, and all legal precedence is clear. The deadline to ratify the Equal right Amendment expired over forty years ago. This is not a grey area of the law. It is black and white. Clear? Crystal. The fact that Biden declared it means nothing.

What is disturbing here is how many purported weighty institutions and people are going along with Biden’s delusion. From Georgetown University to sitting politicians to traditional media outlets, allegedly serious and smart people are utterly beclowning themselves by pretending that Biden’s words are law. Every one of them is an affront to the Rule of Law and our Constitutional government and should never be trusted again. I mean… really… Biden is senile, but what excuse do these people have?

While the president’s statement is sure to be welcomed by advocates. senior administration officials could not say what, if anything, Biden will do beyond making the statement itself.

Because Biden’s statement is just a statement and not an order, proclamation or other presidential action, it carries absolutely zero legal force.

In order for the ERA to be actually considered part of the constitution, the Archivist of the United States would have to publish it officially as the 28th Amendment. A senior administration official who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity said the president was not directing the archivist to publish the amendment.

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Instead, the official repeatedly told reporters that it’s Biden’s view that the amendment has been ratified since 2020, when Virginia’s state legislature became the 38th to approve it.

“He’s using his power of the presidency to make it clear that he believes and he agrees with leading constitutional scholars and the American Bar Association, not that it should be but that it is the 28th amendment of the constitution,” said the official.

Yet Biden’s newfound view on the ERA contradicts his administration’s legal work over the last four years. During numerous legal cases in which the federal government participated, not a single Department of Justice attorney ever argued that the amendment’s prohibition against sex discrimination should be recognized as part of the constitution.

The official could not explain the discrepancy between Biden’s claim that Virginia’s 2020 ratification put the amendment in force and the administration’s inaction during his term. They also said the president’s statement was influenced by the ABA’s recent opinion on the ERA as well as opinions of “leading constitutional scholars” who have said the amendment “has cleared all necessary hurdles to be formally added to the Constitution.

I watched so you won’t have to. I have regrets about that decision. Just a few thoughts…

When I watched this several hours after it happened, there were only 138,000 views on YouTube. America has tuned him out.

Superficially, his delivery was as expected – halting, uneven, and poor. The content was also as expected – lies, arrogance, and condescension. It was full of the same old disproven and wrong tropes that have littered his comments for years. I really think he believes his own BS. It did strike me that the speech itself – the wording, tone, rhythm, etc. – was… not good. His speech writers are just not good at their jobs.

On his message, it was… whatever. He attempted to offer purported wisdom and advice from a man who has been in DC for 50 years, but it’s clear that his lifelong proximity to power has made him too distant and insulated to speak to the common man. The world that he thinks exists is not real and the problems he prioritizes are not the same as ours. His fears are not our fears. His wins were not our wins. He is, and has always been, a creature of the fetid Washington swamp and our country is worse for him having “served.”

I am glad to be done with this awful man and awful president. The damage he has wrought on our nation will take generations to undo.

Given the history of the Biden Crime Family, I’m worried about what he’s taking and how much he will sell them for.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The last time Joe Biden packed up and left office, he took with him thousands of papers from his decades in public service — including some classified documents that should have gone to the National Archives for safekeeping.

 

That move spawned a federal investigation into whether Biden had knowingly broken the law and a damaging Justice Department report that referred to Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory,” igniting public concerns over his mental acuity that eventually led Biden to drop out of the race.

 

The discovery also watered down the significance of the criminal case against President-elect Donald Trump, who had been accused of purposefully hoarding top secret documents at his Florida estate — and it helped fuel Trump’s claims of unfair political persecution.

 

The moving trucks are at the White House again, and Biden’s staff is loading documents and items for storage as he prepares to depart next week. The administration has promised a new, more secure protocol to review and separate out classified information. But with just a week left to go, there’s no word yet on recommendations from a federal task force formed at Biden’s behest to develop best practices for transitions.