Thank you, President Biden

[SickOfTheOnePct]

5. Wonderful gesture

that does nothing.

The executive branch doesn't have a direct role in the amendment process, and Biden is not going to order the archivist to certify and publish the ERA, the White House told reporters on a conference call. A senior administration official said that the archivist's role is "purely ministerial" in nature, meaning that the archivist is required to publish the amendment once it is ratified.

In response to an NPR question about whether the archivist would take any new actions, the National Archives communications staff pointed to a December statement saying that the ERA "cannot be certified as part of the Constitution due to established legal, judicial, and procedural decisions."

"This is a long-standing position for the archivist and the National Archives. The underlying legal and procedural issues have not changed," the archives' statement said.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/17/nx-s1-5264378/biden-era-national-archivist-constitution