A 21-page NRLC Special Report on the extra-constitutional campaign to jam the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment into the U.S. Constitution, including a review of the significant ERA-related events of 2020-2022, and a look at what to expect during the next year or two. Lots...
Communications Department
202.626.8825
mediarelations@nrlc.org
Press Room News / "Equal Rights Amendment"
read more
ERA activist-attorney Kate Kelly advises members of the legal community to simply repeat that the ERA is already the 28th Amendment to the Constitution, during Washington & Lee University School of Law Gass Symposium
Audio of exchange between Judge Wilkins and Harrington
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Sarah Harrington (Biden Administration) tells the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that Congress has no role in determining whether a constitutional amendment has been ratified or not. (From oral argument in Illinois...
Graphic of exchange between Judge Wilkins and Harrington
In testimony before Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee, Archivist-nominee Dr. Colleen Shogan implictly rejects the pressure campaign demanding that she unilaterally certify the ERA as part of the Constitution
“Activists Seek to End-Run Federal Courts on ERA Revival,” by Douglas Johnson, Director, ERA Project, National Right to Life Committee. —The New York Sun
Retiring Archivist David Ferriero on C-SPAN, “I can tell you that Ruth Bader Ginsburg twice told me, in this building, we need to start over [on the Equal Rights Amendment]…the time limit has expired…”
Brief submitted to U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit by Intervenor anti-ERA states (Alabama, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Dakota, Tennessee), in the case of Illinois v. Ferriero (previously named Virginia v. Ferriero)
Special Report On The Equal Rights Amendment
A 15-page NRLC Special Report on what happened in 2021, and what to expect during 2022, on the campaign to jam the pro-abortion Equal Rights Amendment into the U.S. Constitution. This report covers the pertinent history and ongoing developments in the courts, in...