This morning, Biden declared on X that “the Equal Rights Amendment is now the law of the land.” Well, there you have it: The Constitution has a 28th amendment, and women’s rights have been enshrined across the country. Or not. Biden can’t change the Constitution, because the Constitution doesn’t allow him to.

The right and the left don’t agree on how they’d like to change the Constitution, but they do agree that changes need to be made.

President Joe Biden announced that he considers the Equal Rights Amendment “the law of the land” on Friday, a shock move that is unlikely to have any actual effect. The ERA, a constitutional amendment that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex,

The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.

President Biden’s remarks were largely a symbolic gesture of support for a century-long campaign to enshrine gender equality into the Constitution. But advocates said they could add heft to a future legal fight.

Did Florida ever ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, the 1972 amendment that declared women equal under the law?