To come into effect, the constitutional amendment would need to be formally published or certified by the national archivist, who has declined to do so in the past. What happens now is unclear.

Reading scores among fourth graders on the 2024 assessments are the same as the 2022 results – which Gov. Glenn Youngkin called catastrophic at the time.

Some legal scholars argue that the amendment was properly ratified, but for Biden to definitively say it’s "the law of the land" ignores precedent and the reality that no federal government entity has recognized the amendment as part of the Constitution. We rate Biden’s claim False.

The Endless Caverns, near New Market, was explored three-quarters of a mile farther than it had ever been explored before but still no end was found, according to Carveth Wells, a member of the expedition.

Virginia became the 38th state to ratify it in 2020 ... said she wished Biden’s statement had come earlier in hopes of influencing the leader of the National Archives, who has declined to certify the amendment because of the expired deadline for ...

“The American Bar Association (ABA) has recognized that the Equal Rights Amendment has cleared all necessary hurdles to be formally added to the Constitution as the 28th Amendment,” Biden wrote. “I agree with the ABA and with leading legal constitutional scholars that the Equal Rights Amendment has become part of our Constitution.

Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center ... the documents “need to be turned over to the National Archives and we need the best, easiest mechanism to do it.”“The most important thing is to ...

Many people who have studied what’s been released so far say the public shouldn’t anticipate any earth-shattering revelations, but there is still intense interest in details related to the

WHEN PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP authorized the full release of federal archives on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he made good on a promise near and dear to academic historians and conspiracy theorists alike.