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Alabama, 4 other states prevail in suit to block Equal Rights Amendment certification
WSFA-TV Montgomery ^ | 28 Feb 2023 | WSFA 12 News Staff

Posted on 03/01/2023 11:02:52 AM PST by Alas Babylon!

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To: Alas Babylon!

While the ruling is of course correct I seem to remember from college government class that the USSC has original jurisdiction in cases involving disputes among the states. Should not this be a the USSC to begin?


21 posted on 03/01/2023 12:40:08 PM PST by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will )
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So if the ERA had been ratified, it would have been the 27th amendment and the current 27th would have been the 28th.

At one point Congress did (illegally) extend the deadline, but that didn't help. Thank you, Phyllis Schlafly!

22 posted on 03/01/2023 1:12:12 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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23 posted on 03/01/2023 1:55:26 PM PST by nwrep
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Young White girls love a good protest, the guys attend to pick up chicks.


24 posted on 03/01/2023 1:57:03 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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So if the ERA had been ratified, it would have been the 27th amendment and the current 27th would have been the 28th.

Correct.

At one point Congress did (illegally) extend the deadline, but that didn't help.

Correct again. Congress used the Legislative Process, rather than the Amendatory Process in Article V, to extend the deadline by 3 years, but a federal court struck it down. Some articles on this subject name the drop-dead date as June 1, 1982, but the real date on which the ratification window closed was June 1, 1979.

Attempts to execute belated ratifications were simply virtue signaling. Even Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that if this issue came before the Supreme Court, she would have to hold her nose and vote with the conservatives.

25 posted on 03/01/2023 2:01:05 PM PST by Publius
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Yep, if this had been ratified, it would be just as legitimate as Biden’s election was.


26 posted on 03/01/2023 2:06:34 PM PST by Boogieman
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