President Biden’s recent declaration that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is now “the law of the land” has drawn mockery during his final days in office. Biden isn’t even safe from insults from Vice President-elect JD Vance.
Vance responded to Biden’s statement in an article on X, joking that Biden should enshrine disgraced MLB icon Pete Rose into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
“Hey Joe, if we do some fake shit on the way out, can you declare Pete Rose for the Hall of Fame?” Vance wrote. “See you in two days!”
Rose, who died in September, was banned for life from MLB for illegally betting on games.
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Cincinnati Reds Hall of Famer Pete Rose adjusts his cap as he takes the microphone during a pregame ceremony for the unveiling of the bronze statue of Pete Rose installed outside the stadium before the MLB National League game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Great American Ball Park in downtown Cincinnati on Saturday, June 17, 2017. (IMAGINE)
Rose was banned in 1989, after an investigation concluded that he not only bet on MLB games, but went so far as to bet on games involving the Cincinnati Reds while managing the team .
Rose signed an agreement with Commissioner Bart Giamatti permanently declaring him ineligible for baseball, but allowing him to seek reinstatement and avoid a formal declaration that he was betting on baseball. Rose’s multiple appeals for reinstatement over the past decades have failed.
As a player, Rose won three World Series titles, two with the Reds and one with the Phillies, while appearing in 17 All-Star Games and winning the NL MVP in 1973. He still holds the record for most hits in MLB history with 4,256.
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Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies bats during a baseball game in 1980. Rose will make an on-field appearance in Philadelphia next month. Baseball’s career hits leader will be part of the Phillies Alumni Weekend and will be featured on the field alongside many former teammates from the 1980 World Series championship team on August 7. (AP photo, file)
Yet his betting scandal has made him one of the most controversial holdouts in the Baseball Hall of Fame since his retirement. His absence from the Hall of Fame is one of the most hotly debated controversies in sports.
So Vance had no hesitation in referencing the famous Rose Hall of Fame controversy to mock the outgoing president.
Citing the American Bar Association in the statement, Biden argued that the ERA has “overcome all the necessary hurdles to be formally added to the Constitution.” Biden added that he agreed with “the ABA and leading constitutional scholars that the Equal Rights Amendment is now part of our Constitution.” However, despite Biden’s argument, the National Archives disagrees.
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In a post on X calling the ERA the “law of the land”, implying that it is already part of the Constitution, which is not the case. Social media users were quick to point this out, with some calling the president a “dictator.”
The ERA, a proposed amendment to the Constitution that would guarantee “equal rights under the law” to all Americans, regardless of gender. Its latest iteration was a rapid response by New York Democrats to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization decision in June 2022.
