'A hundred years after suffragists fought for and won the right to vote, women voters—empowered by the feminist, civil rights and LGBTQ movements—will likely determine the outcome of the high-stakes elections of 2020.' From Executive Editor kathyspillar:
For more than two decades, the Virginia House’s right-wing leadership has stopped the ERA from coming to the floor for a full vote. But in the 2017 state legislative election, and again in the 2019 election after a court-mandated redistricting to fix racial gerrymandering, feminist candidates along with women’s votes flipped long-held Republican seats. The result: a Democratic, pro-women’s equality majority in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly for the first time ever.
, based on the arbitrary time line Congress placed in the preamble to the ERA and on attempts by five states to rescind their ratification vote. “The time line was not voted on by the ratifying states and is therefore non-binding. In fact, the Congress has already changed the time line in the preamble once before,” Smeal explains. “What’s more, no state rescission of a constitutional amendment has ever been recognized.” Referencing the overwhelming support among both women and men in the U.S.
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