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Biden what an addled maroon.
1 posted on 01/17/2025 2:20:46 PM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

No. The timeline to ratify it expired.


2 posted on 01/17/2025 2:26:30 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: DallasBiff

Sure it can. It has to be reproposed, then be ratified by the states.

IOW, not gonna happen.


3 posted on 01/17/2025 2:27:41 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: DallasBiff
The one item in this article with which I disagree is this: the 1982 deadline. In Idaho v. Freeman, the attempt by Congress to extend the seven-year ratification window to ten years was declared unconstitutional because Congress used the legislative process delineated by Articles I and II rather than the amendatory process as delineated by Article V. Thus, the seven-year window was valid, and it expired in 1979.

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.

4 posted on 01/17/2025 2:30:25 PM PST by Publius
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To: DallasBiff

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.


5 posted on 01/17/2025 2:30:26 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: DallasBiff
Legal buff note: Below is the full text of the ERA that the states didn't ratify in time.

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.

6 posted on 01/17/2025 2:30:50 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: DallasBiff
the White House said Biden wil not order the Archivist of the United States to certify the proposed amendment.

United States Archivist sounds like an easy job. You work about once every 20 years?

7 posted on 01/17/2025 2:32:22 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: DallasBiff

No and NO. Dead. Gone with the wind


8 posted on 01/17/2025 2:45:12 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: DallasBiff

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.


11 posted on 01/17/2025 3:14:40 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐Ÿ’ฉ? ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘!)
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To: DallasBiff
They'll have to propose the Equal Rights Amendment all over again. No way they'll get 2/3 of Congress this time.

Somehow they'll manage to do that, only 20 blue states will vote yes. They'll need 18 more.

12 posted on 01/17/2025 3:20:46 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: DallasBiff

Please God, no.


13 posted on 01/17/2025 3:24:59 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: DallasBiff

He didn’t order the archive because they said no.


14 posted on 01/17/2025 3:33:13 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: DallasBiff

The last gasp of the 1970’s.

NOBODY remembers the ERA except ancient leftist warriors like Biden.

He’ll be dead soon.


15 posted on 01/17/2025 3:34:41 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: DallasBiff

Remembering Phyllis Schafly and her epic battle against the ERA.


16 posted on 01/17/2025 3:38:20 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: DallasBiff

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.


18 posted on 01/18/2025 6:00:43 AM PST by tanstaafl.72555
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