[Publius]

The seven year window on ERA ratification expired decades ago. Congress added three years to the window, a federal court in Idaho ruled that unconstitutional, and the Supreme Court declared the case moot, refusing to grant cert.

It's dead. To bring it back to life, Congress must pass it again with a two-thirds majority in both Houses. That will never happen.

[stars & stripes forever]

[the Supreme Court declared the case moot, refusing to grant cert.]

The Supreme Court never declared the ERA extension unconstitutional. It is the “not crossing the Ts and dotting the Is” that opens up differing interpretations to the ‘moot point’...

Remember the Monica Lewinsky affair and Bill Clinton’s “It depends on what the meaning of the words ‘is’ is.” during his 1998 grand jury testimony. “It depends on how you define alone.”

This time around will there be enough principled citizens who care enough to fight ERA?