Equal Rights Amendment advocates received a blow from one of the bill’s biggest and most consequential supporters when Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that she believes that the deadline to ratify the ERA as a constitutional amendment has long expired. Instead, she recommends that efforts to codify the ERA start from scratch.
advocates received a blow from one of the bill’s biggest and most consequential supporters when Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that she believes that the deadline to ratify the ERA as a constitutional amendment has long expired. Instead, she recommends that efforts to codify the ERA start from scratch.
, which simply states that, “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” Advocates argue that the Virginia vote triggered the threshold needed to pass the bill, even 48 years after it was first proposed.But the decades-long fight has been riddled with setbacks and arbitrary deadlines.
said, summarizing the message being relayed to the GOP caucus. “It’s about eliminating federal and state life protections and ushering in an era of taxpayer funding of abortion.”
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