[Svartalfiar]

How do you delete the time limit? Once it hit, the legislation is gone gone, not just sitting in a limbo!

[Publius]

In 1979, Congress attempted to extend the ratification window by 3 years. However, Congress used the Legislative Process in Article I instead of the Amendatory Process in Article V. Even though Jimmy Carter thought it was unconstitutional, he signed it into law.

A federal court in Idaho in the 9th Circuit ruled the extension unconstitutional because the wrong process was used by Congress. Appeals to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court failed. The ERA died on June 1, 1979.

A few years ago a number of states with Democrat legislatures attempted to ratify the ERA belatedly. It was an exercise in virtue signaling. The Archivist of the United States refused to accept those ratifications because the ERA had died in 1979. Those states sued in the DC Circuit, and another group of states sued to uphold the Archivist's rejection. A few months ago, the DC Circuit upheld the rejection and -- again -- officially killed the ERA.

This release from the Eagle Forum is from two years ago. I suspect that someone mistakenly sent it out. The ERA died 44 years ago, and the courts have ruled it dead.

As Ruth Bader Ginsburg said to the ERA's proponents, "You have to start all over again." Brutally put, the votes aren't there in either House of Congress to revive the ERA.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The original ERA said in the wording that it had to be passed withing 7 years and it wasn’t. You can’t change the wording of the original proposed amendment and substitute something different and then declare that all the previous ratifications by the states still holds up.