That’s what President Joe Biden seemingly attempted to do Friday, in his third-to-final full day in office. Biden announced that the 28th Amendment — an amendment guaranteeing men and women equal rights under the law — is the “law of the land.

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 Rights Amendment met the requirements to be added to the

The Equal Rights Amendment, which would prohibit discrimination based on gender, was sent to the states for ratification in 1972. Congress set a deadline of 1979 for three-quarters of state legislatures to ratify the amendment, then extended it to 1982.