Posted on 01/17/2025 2:20:46 PM PST by DallasBiff
Updated: On Jan. 17, 2025, President Joseph Biden said in a statement that he believes the "Equal Rights Amendment has cleared all necessary hurdles to be formally added to the Constitution as the 28th Amendment." According to a report from NPR, the White House said Biden wil not order the Archivist of the United States to certify the proposed amendment.
Original Story: In recent weeks, several groups have asked outgoing President Joe Biden to order the Archivist of the United States to certify the Equal Rights Amendment (or ERA) as the next amendment to the Constitution. Although the ERA’s ratification deadline passed in 1982, some people supporting the ERA believe that deadline is not in effect and the ERA should be the law of the land.
On Dec. 17, 2024, the Archivist’s office responded to the latest request from ERA supporters: “At this time, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) cannot be certified as part of the Constitution due to established legal, judicial, and procedural decisions,” said Archivist of the United States Dr. Colleen Shogan and Deputy Archivist William J. Bosanko. The Archivist cited opinions from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Council issued in 2020 and 2022 that stated that the “the ratification deadline established by Congress for the ERA is valid and enforceable,” the ERA had expired and was therefore no longer pending before the states.
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No. The timeline to ratify it expired.
Sure it can. It has to be reproposed, then be ratified by the states.
IOW, not gonna happen.
To revive the ERA, Congress must start from scratch, write the amendment and send it to the states for ratification by the necessary two-thirds vote in each House. Congress can attach -- or not attach -- a ratification window to a new ERA. By the way, this is precisely what Ruth Bader Ginsburg said when this controversy first erupted.
If one looks at the equal rights amendment, it is an outstanding piece of legislation. It guaranteed that access to schools, work, etc. would be based on merit and not color, creed, religion, sex etc. This was the vision of Martin Luther King. It came to be and this was good. Martin Luther’s vision has been corrupted!
Today all the things that were supposed to be equal have become the opposite. Discrimination is now rampant based on the things the equal rights legislation prohibited.
Section 1: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
Section 2: The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Section 3: This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.
My take: The word "equity" has too much of a politically charged new meaning expecting equal outcomes without making equal decisions and determination. In other words, without merit being part of it. And "rights" is vaguely defined today. Because the ERA text doesn't say that rights is defined just by prior portions of the U.S. Constitution, it could be interpreted to mean a "right" to a govt paid sex change or abortion, or a "right" to groom kids in school, etc.
No and NO. Dead. Gone with the wind
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Indeed. Racial bigotry against White people, and sex-based bigotry against Men are now the law of the land ... and this is the true legacy of the misnamed and misbegotten "civil" "rights" "movement".
Hey now. Branduhn just said its now legally the new improved lo-cal mint flavored 28th amendment. Cause he said so. Uh, nope! No workee dat way joe.
Somehow they'll manage to do that, only 20 blue states will vote yes. They'll need 18 more.
Please God, no.
He didn’t order the archive because they said no.
The last gasp of the 1970’s.
NOBODY remembers the ERA except ancient leftist warriors like Biden.
He’ll be dead soon.
Remembering Phyllis Schafly and her epic battle against the ERA.
I see your point - the DEI evangelists should think REALLY HARD before supporting something that their cause threw to the gutter in the 1980s (all people should receive equal treatment). It gives the conservatives on the Supreme Court a PERFECT perch to end DEI.
Once we find and classify the Loch Ness monster, elect Hilary Clinton, and harness a good antigravity machine, we might take a shot at this. Not before.
It doesn’t actually guarantee anything based on merit, it only prevents discrimination based on sex and has nothing to do with racial discrimination or other kinds of discrimination. It attempts to create equality between sexes that nature itself does not recognize, and can be too broadly interpreted.
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