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Gillibrand Presses Biden to Amend the Constitution to Enshrine Sex Equality
The New York Times ^ | Dec. 13, 2024, 12:09 p.m. ET | Annie Karni

Posted on 12/13/2024 10:47:40 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is leading the charge for Democrats to persuade President Biden to adopt the Equal Rights Amendment, which would invite a Supreme Court battle.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is on a mission in President Biden’s final days in office. She wants to convince him that he can rescue his legacy by adding the century-old Equal Rights Amendment, which would explicitly guarantee sex equality, to the Constitution as a way to protect abortion rights in post-Roe America.

He could do it all, she contends, with one phone call.

Both houses of Congress approved the amendment in 1972, but it was not ratified by the states in time to be added to the Constitution. Ms. Gillibrand has been pushing a legal theory that the deadline for ratification is irrelevant and unconstitutional. All that remains, she argues, is for Mr. Biden to direct the national archivist, who is responsible for the certification and publication of constitutional amendments, to publish the E.R.A. as the 28th Amendment.

The move would almost certainly invite a legal challenge that would land in the Supreme Court. But Ms. Gillibrand wants Mr. Biden to use his presidential power while he still has it to force the issue, effectively daring Republicans to wage a legal battle to take away equal rights for women.

Ms. Gillibrand’s is just one of the many entreaties Democrats in Congress are making to Mr. Biden in the waning hours of his term to take bold action before President-elect Donald J. Trump and an all-Republican Congress take over in January. Some are pressing him to protect undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. Others are pushing for more clemency grants for incarcerated people.

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Both houses of Congress approved the amendment in 1972, but it was not ratified by the states in time to be added to the Constitution. Ms. Gillibrand has been pushing a legal theory that the deadline for ratification is irrelevant and unconstitutional.

The Constitution is unconstitutional.

Check.

1 posted on 12/13/2024 10:47:40 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What a moron.


2 posted on 12/13/2024 10:48:54 AM PST by goodnesswins (Don’t be REALITY PHOBIC!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
He could do it all, she contends, with one phone call.

And a pen.

3 posted on 12/13/2024 10:49:55 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: goodnesswins

These days the Democrats can’t even figure out what a woman is....since they are not biologists ya know....

Lol.


4 posted on 12/13/2024 10:51:12 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If men are required to be as emotional as some women then there are going to be regrets. Just sayin.


5 posted on 12/13/2024 10:51:23 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 1Old Pro

“Stroke of a pen . . . law of the land. Kind of cool.” —Paul “The Forehead” Begala


6 posted on 12/13/2024 10:51:42 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

7 posted on 12/13/2024 10:52:07 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

SCOTUS can ‘t define what a woman is anyway.


8 posted on 12/13/2024 10:52:26 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They don’t even believe in women


9 posted on 12/13/2024 10:52:39 AM PST by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I saw this one talking about the drones yesterday. She doesn’t seem real bright.


10 posted on 12/13/2024 10:54:37 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: goodnesswins

The push to go full communist and criminal in 30 days is sickening.


11 posted on 12/13/2024 10:55:58 AM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: goodnesswins

Uhhh, the process to amend the Constitution is a wee bit more complicated than a call and a pen.


12 posted on 12/13/2024 10:58:57 AM PST by rightazrain ("Suppose you were an idiot...suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself" -Mark Twain)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

of what rights are they now deprived?


13 posted on 12/13/2024 10:59:39 AM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The seven year deadline ended on March 22, 1979. 35 states approved it before that date and three more votes to approve afterward. But 5 of those states voted to rescind their ratification before March 22, 1979 and one more afterward. So is a date limit allowed within an amendment and can a state rescind its ratification? The text of the Constitution is silent on both.


14 posted on 12/13/2024 11:00:03 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Now unburdened by the Biden/Harris administration that has been.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Gillibrand is pushing feminazi BS!

And any such action by biden won’t save his legacy—as perhaps the worst ever President of the United States!


15 posted on 12/13/2024 11:02:03 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The DC Clown Show gets funnier and funnier. Not only do they want Biden to pardon everyone in the entire party from any crimes, past, present, or contemplated, they want him to enact Constitutional Amendments with a wave of his mighty wand for good measure. Underlying this is the conviction so dear to progressive hearts that once they get something they want it’s unchangeable and forever. Trump has driven these people nuts.


16 posted on 12/13/2024 11:04:42 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
If you read Article V, you will see that there is no role for the President in the Amendatory Process. Biden has no say. Article V makes Congress and the states the only parties to amending the Constitution.

Ratification windows received the green light from the Supreme Court in 1921 in Dillon v. Gloss and again in 1939 in Coleman v. Miller. Ratification windows are relevant.

The ratification window for the ERA closed on June 1, 1979. The attempt by Congress to extend the ratification window to June 1, 1982 was killed by a federal court in Idaho because Congress used the Legislative Process as defined in Articles I and II rather than the Amendatory Process as defined in Article V. No higher court would take an appeal.

The belated ratifications by Illinois and Virginia were ruled null and void by a 3-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. No one attempted to appeal that decision to the Supreme Court.

The ERA died on June 1, 1979, and the only way it can come back is for its backers start from the beginning and get Congress to approve the amendment proposal by a two thirds vote in each House to send it to the states for ratification. Even Ruth Bader Ginsburg said so.

17 posted on 12/13/2024 11:05:44 AM PST by Publius
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To: Honorary Serb

Mwanwhile, the Republican party didn’t spend a dime to try to defeat Gillibrand this year.


18 posted on 12/13/2024 11:06:33 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Don’t forget her father was middle management at NXIVM... the sex trafficking company


19 posted on 12/13/2024 11:06:50 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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the Republican party didn’t spend a dime to try to defeat Gillibrand this year.

Because NYS GOP Chair Ed (Tricia Nixon) Cox was too busy attending uniparty cocktail parties to get a competent candidate and fundraising going.

20 posted on 12/13/2024 11:08:30 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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