President Joe Biden said Friday that he believes the Equal Rights Amendment, which guarantees equal protections regardless of sex, is the “law of the land” but stopped short of ordering the U.S. archivist to publish the constitutional amendment.

The ERA, which would be the 28th Amendment, began its path to ratification in the 1970s, with progressives waging a pressure campaign on Biden after Virginia became the 38th state to approve it.

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