Posted on 12/15/2024 6:58:58 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Members of the House authored a letter urging President Joe Biden to take action to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, protecting rights for all regardless of sex, before he leaves office early next year.
“As we approach the conclusion of your historic administration, we urge you to take immediate action to recognize the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) as the 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution,” they wrote in the letter dated Sunday.
“We must continue our efforts to fully affirm and recognize the equality of rights for all people, regardless of sex, as part of our Constitution, a vital effort that has never been more urgent.”
The House members’ letter follows a similar one sent to Biden in November, signed by 46 Democratic senators.
The ERA, first drafted in 1923, states that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” It also grants Congress power to enforce the amendment.
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And I want a pony.
Did 38 states foolishly sign off on this?
In a month?
Stupids
And I want a 918 Porsche Spyder.
Very.
Again, the liberals try to cheat. The amendment had an expiration date, which has long passed, which the liberals ignore.
The ERA sat around for 10 years waiting on the required number of States legislatures to pass it. It didn’t happen then; it won’t happen now.
Not within the required time limit.
No, they didn’t. There was a 10 year period for that to happen. It did not.
They can also ask him to order the sun to rise in the west for all the good it will do.
That’s good to know.
And these idiots are in congress.
Yawn.
It's all moot due to the deadline.
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 and settled law.
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 district 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 Nevada, 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.
World peas..
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