National Archives Rebuffs Democratic Efforts To Get Biden To Ratify Equal Rights Amendment Before He Leaves Office

Activists say a recent Supreme Court decision gives gay, lesbian, and transgender people, along with women, protections under the ERA.

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ERA YES sign in the State Capitol Rotunda during a rally for the Equal Rights Amendment at St. Paul, Minnesota. Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via AP

The National Archives will not publish the Equal Rights Amendment as part of the Constitution — as some Democratic activists had hoped before the end of President Biden’s term — because the amendment reached the support threshold from state legislatures long after the original deadline for ratification, officials at the National Archive said Tuesday. 

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