Posted on 01/02/2020 3:03:50 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
RICHMOND, Va. — Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment are so confident Virginia is on the verge of becoming the critical 38th state to ratify the gender equality measure, they are already making plans for how they will celebrate.
But that jubilation could be largely symbolic. Despite broad support for the amendment in the state, the ERA’s prospects nationally are substantially more complicated.
The proposed 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution faces a host of likely legal challenges and vehement opposition from conservative activists who depict the ERA as a threat to their stances on abortion and transgender rights.
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Of course the Equal Protection Act should already do that, but as long as men are going to take what the biased system dishes out, nothing is going to change for men regardless of whether the ERA is passed.
Correct. This is just virtue signaling from the Left.
Only takes one Obama judge to issue a nationwide ruling and Roberts to do his thang. Lots of mischief can be committed before it works its way to USSC.
Dems are looking for any election year issue to beat Trump over the head with.
There is a time limit.
Only the SCOTUS can overturn its own precedent. That would be a black swan event. Forget it.
As I said. It’s dead, and no amount of liberal braying will bring it back to life.
They make up their own rules.
It’s been dead for decades.
Equal Rights Amendment
Consider that the voting rights amendments are all the constitutional “equal rights” protections that the country needs imo.
Also, the Constitution implies a relatively short time frame for the states to ratify amendments proposed by Congress imo.
More specifically, elections have consequences. And if a new session of Congress no longer has 2/3 supermajority support of each House for a proposed amendment passed by Congress before an election, the Article V supermajority of states failing to ratify the proposed amendment before the election, then perhaps the proposed amendment should die.
A proposed, post-election amendment should die especially if it was a controversial election year issue like the expired, politically correct Equal Rights Amendment is.
Hypothetically speaking, a ratified amendment proposed by Congress needs to go back to Congress to pass another 2/3 supermajority vote by each House before being added to the Constitution. This would be a test-of-time safeguard against misguided, politically correct amendments to the Constitution.
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I was living in South Carolina during the 1970s when the liberals were trying to get an ERA Amendment (equal rights for women) added to the Constitution... I think only 1 state more was needed at the time and SC was one of 3 possible states to cave...SC was considered the softest so the liberals converged on the state and campaigned and threatened for months...
The week before the SC legislature voted they floated candle light paper boats down the river in Columbia declaring the magic would work for them and a host of other witchery activities...we were neck deep in ‘true believer’ nuts...
However SC did not cave and so they never got the Amendment they thought they were entitled to and that for them was in the bag...
OH NOOOOOOOEZ the mothers and grandmothers of the snowflakes of 2016 were foiled...
The so called ERA Amendment was defeated...
I don’t know what this ...
I was gonna say, didn’t the clock run out on that?
That amendment really should be buried, and Congress should simply start over with a new ERA. But the Democraps, once again, are trying to skirt the rules — to cheat, essentially — by acting if the ratification time period for the ERA were as open-ended as the time period for the 27th Amendment, which had no sunset for ratification.
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You cannot revive something that is already dead.
What I don’t get is why don’t the socialists start over with a new ERA in congress and see if they can pass it out to the states for ratification? Instead of fair play, they prefer to cheat and play a losing game.
Kind of ironic - can ERA even have relevance these days?
Main objection is that it would give women no choice about whether to fight in actual battles in the armed forces.
feelgood feelgood feelgood
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