President Biden's recent declaration that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is present "the instrumentality of the land" has prompted mockery successful his last days successful office. Biden isn't adjacent harmless from insults from Vice President-elect JD Vance.
Vance responded to Biden's declaration successful a station connected X, joking that Biden should enactment the precocious disgraced MLB icon Pete Rose successful the Baseball Hall of Fame.
"Hey Joe if we’re doing fake s--- connected the mode retired tin you state Pete Rose into the Hall of Fame?" Vance wrote. "See you successful 2 days!"
Rose, who died backmost successful September, was banned from MLB for beingness for illegally betting connected games.
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Cincinnati Reds hallway of famer Pete Rose adjusts his headdress arsenic helium takes the microphone during a pregame ceremonial for the unveiling of Pete Rose's bronze statue being installed extracurricular the stadium earlier the MLB National League crippled betwixt the Cincinnati Reds and the Los Angeles Dodgers astatine Great American Ball Park successful downtown Cincinnati connected Saturday, June 17, 2017. (IMAGN)
Rose was banned successful 1989 aft an probe concluded that helium not lone gambled connected MLB games, but went truthful acold arsenic to wager connected games involving the Cincinnati Reds erstwhile helium was managing the team.
Rose signed an statement with Commissioner Bart Giamatti declaring him permanently ineligible for shot but allowing him to petition for reinstatement and debar a ceremonial declaration that helium stake connected baseball. Multiple appeals by Rose for reinstatement implicit the past fewer decades person failed.
As a player, Rose won 3 World Series titles, 2 with the Reds and 1 with the Philllies, portion making 17 All-Star games and winning NL MVP successful 1973. He famously inactive holds the grounds for astir hits successful MLB past with 4,256.
Philadelphia Phillies' Pete Rose bats during a 1980 shot game. Rose volition marque an quality connected the tract successful Philadelphia adjacent month. Baseball’s vocation hits person volition beryllium portion of Phillies alumni weekend, and volition beryllium introduced connected the tract alongside galore erstwhile teammates from the 1980 World Series title squad connected Aug. 7. (AP Photo, File)
Yet, his betting ungraded has made him 1 of the astir arguable holdouts of the shot Hall of Fame since his retirement. His lack from the Hall of Fame is 1 of the sport's astir fiercely debated controversies.
So Vance had nary reservations astir referencing Rose's famed Hall of Fame contention to mock the outgoing president.
Citing the American Bar Association successful the statement, Biden argued that the ERA has "cleared each indispensable hurdles to formally beryllium added to the Constitution." Biden added that helium agreed with "the ABA and with starring law scholars that the Equal Rights Amendment has go portion of our Constitution." However, contempt Biden’s argument, the National Archives disagreed.
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In a station connected X calling the ERA the "law of the land," implying that it is already portion of the Constitution, which is not the case. Social media users were speedy to constituent this out, with immoderate calling the president a "dictator."
The ERA, a projected amendment to the constitution that would warrant "equal rights nether the law" to each Americans careless of sex. Its latest iteration was a accelerated effect by New York Democrats to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization determination successful June 2022.
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Jackson Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital. He antecedently worked for ESPN and Business Insider. Jackson has covered the Super Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.