Joe Biden is claiming to recognize a new constitutional amendment to enshrine protections against sex discrimination, but it’s unclear whether the president intends to take any action to publish it before Donald Trump enters office.
The Equal Rights Amendment — which would become the nation’s 28th constitutional amendment — would explicitly protect Americans from discrimination on the basis of sex, which advocates argue could provide firm constitutional basis to overturn state-level anti-abortion laws in the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to overturn Roe v Wade.
