JD Vance mocks Biden’s 28th Amendment announcement with a Pete Rose Hall of Fame comparison
President Biden recent declaration that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was now “the law of the land” prompted jeers in his final days in office. Biden is not safe even from the insults of the newly elected Vice President JD Vance.
Vance responded to Biden’s statement in a post on X, joking that Biden should put the late disgraced MLB icon Pete Rose in the baseball hall of fame.
“Hey Joe, if we’re doing fake s— on the way out, can you make Pete Rose a Hall of Famer?” Vance wrote. “See you in two days!”
Rose, who died back in September, was banned from MLB for life for illegal betting on games.
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Cincinnati Reds Hall of Famer Pete Rose adjusts his cap as he takes the microphone during the pregame ceremony to unveil the bronze statue of Pete Rose placed 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. (IMAGIN)
Rose was banned in 1989 after an investigation concluded that he not only gambled 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 that declares him permanently ineligible for baseball, but allows him to petition for reinstatement and avoid an official statement that he bet on baseball. Rose’s multiple reinstatement requests over the past several decades have failed.
As a player, Rose won three World Series titles, two with the Reds and one with the Phillies, while playing in 17 All-Star games and winning the NL MVP in 1973. He is known to still hold the record for most hits in MLB history with 4,256 .
Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies bats during a 1980 baseball game.Rose will appear on the field in Philadelphia next month. Baseball’s career hitting leader will be part of Phillies alumni weekend and will be featured on the field along with many of his former teammates from the 1980 World Series champion team on August 7th. (AP Photo, File)
Still, his betting scandal has made him one of the most controversial members of the Baseball Hall of Fame since his retirement. His absence from the Hall of Fame is one of the most heated controversies in sports.
So Vance had no qualms about bringing up Rose’s famous Hall of Fame controversy to poke fun at the outgoing president.
Quoting the American Bar Association in a statement, Biden asserted that the ERA “has cleared all 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 has become part of our Constitution.” However, despite Biden’s arguments, the National Archives disagreed.
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President Biden has contracted COVID-19, the White House announced. (Biden speaks at a rally in Virginia)
In a post on X calling ERA “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.”
ERA, a proposed constitutional amendment that would guarantee “equal rights under the law” to all Americans regardless of sex. Its latest iteration was New York Democrats’ quick response to the Supreme Court’s June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization decision.
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