Vice President-elect JD Vance took a last-minute, Cincinnati Reds-themed jab at outgoing President Joe Biden on X, formerly known as Twitter.

The move has no immediate legal force but will likely spark lawsuits that advocates hope will restore abortion rights.

President Biden says he believes the amendment has met the requirements to be enshrined in the Constitution. Its history has been long and complex.

President Joe Biden announced a major opinion Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment is ratified, enshrining its protections into the Constitution, a last-minute move that some believe could pave the way to bolstering reproductive rights.

Biden’s statement has no legal force and a White House official said courts would have to decide whether the amendment is a valid part of America’s constitution

But what matters, legal experts say, is what Biden didn’t do: He didn’t order the archivist of the United States to formally publish the amendment. And he didn’t direct the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel to withdraw its written opinion that the deadline for ratification expired long ago.

President Joe Biden renewed his call for the Equal Right Amendment to be ratified, but is stopping short of taking any action on the matter in his final days in office.

The ERA’s deadline expired decades ago, but the president argues that recent approvals by three states put the amendment over the top.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of homeland security, got some heat for rattling off dubious statistics during her Senate confirmation hearing Friday.

One of the more questionable things departing chief exec Joe Biden did in his waning days was declaring the Equal Rights Amendment officially “ratified” as the Constitution’s 28th Amendment.

Each era brings new challenges and interpretations that shape the foundation of law and justice in the United States.