The question of pardoning the pro-Trump rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, was “very simple,” according to Vice President J.D. Vance. 

With a foot out the door of the Oval Office, President Joe Biden, in a meaningless but official-looking document, declared that the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, which failed in 1982 when the extended period specified by Congress for its ratification elapsed, has actually been ratified and is now the 28th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

I haven’t yet written about Martin Luther King Jr. in this series, because I have been saving him.