If there is a silver lining in these dark days for American democracy, it is the pressure test that President Trump and his allies are putting on the Constitution. They are revealing loopholes, gaps ...

Although it has since been removed from the White House website, on Friday afternoon, with seconds remaining on his presidential clock, Joseph Robinette Biden announced (noticed?) that the Equal ...

It’s been lost in the news blitz of the past three weeks that in a sudden and last-ditch effort on the Friday before leaving office, President Joe Biden announced that the Equal Rights Amendment was ...

Former President Joe Biden’s attempt to add an amendment to the Constitution with a statement issued just before he left office is one of several eleventh-hour moves that could come under renewed ...

The culture war carousel has gone into overdrive. Extreme whitemenification of federal government perpetrated by the Trump/DOGE administration underscores the serious need for an Equal Rights ...

A viral “chain message” is making the rounds on social media, petitioning for a 28th amendment that will hold members of Congress accountable to the same laws as all other Americans. It appears in ...

As promised, my new paper on the Equal Rights Amendment, "The Twelfth Amendment and the ERA," is now available on SSRN. The paper lays out new historical evidence on prior Article V amendments, to ...

About 7000 Equal Rights Amendment demonstrators in protest in Raleigh in 1982 after the legislature buried the issue. File photo This week, our nation took a historic step forward after President Joe ...

A deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment expired in 1982, but some states ratified it afterward. Some scholars argue the deadline is unconstitutional. Other legal experts said the ...

Wonder Land: Donald Trump used to be accused of breaking norms. Now it’s ‘disruption.’ Question is: will this approach work in 2025? The answer doesn’t break easily into yes or no. Photo: Valerie ...