That’s Not How Constitutional Amendments Work
The president’s declaration that the Equal Rights Amendment is “the law of the land” doesn’t make it so.
Russell Berman
Russell Berman is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Since joining The Atlantic in 2014, Russell has written extensively about Congress, political reform, and policy experiments in states and cities. He previously covered the House of Representatives for The Hill newspaper and served as a Washington correspondent for the New York Sun.
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