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To view or download a PDF version of this Press Release, click here. WASHINGTON – Within the past 10 days, multiple political actors promoting resuscitation of the long-expired 1972 Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) have stepped up a campaign to pressure the Biden-Harris...
To view or download a PDF version of this Press Release, click here. WASHINGTON – Backers of the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) will begin yet another series of shock-paddle treatments to the long-expired proposal this week, with a hearing on “The Equal Rights...
WASHINGTON – Groups that believe that the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment can still become part of the U.S. Constitution will hold a rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, August 26, under the slogan “No Time Limit on Equality.” Rally organizers will likely...
WASHINGTON – A three-judge federal court of appeals panel today unanimously upheld the dismissal of Equal Means Equal v. Ferriero, one of two ongoing lawsuits that implausibly claim that the federal Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) has been ratified and is part of the...
WASHINGTON – Three Democratic attorneys general today appealed a landmark March 5 ruling by federal Judge Rudolph Contreras, who held that the Equal Rights Amendment expired decades ago, and that the ERA in reality has not been “ratified” by 38 states as has been...
The measure instructs that North Dakota “should not be counted by Congress…Archivist…any court…,” because its ratification “officially lapsed” In a first-in-the-nation move, the North Dakota legislature today gave final approval to a measure to formally notify...
WASHINGTON—U.S. House Democrats today passed, 222-204, a resolution they claimed could resuscitate the long-expired 1972 Equal Rights Amendment. “This was ERA’s poorest showing in the House in 50 years,” said Douglas D. Johnson, senior policy advisor to the National...
WASHINGTON—On Wednesday, March 17, 2021, the House of Representatives will take up H.J. Res. 17, a measure that purports to “remove the ratification deadline” from the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment Resolution, and thereby (proponents claim) make the 1972 ERA part of the...
To view or download a PDF version of this letter, click here. Re: Pro-life scorecard alert on H.J. Res. 17, purporting to ratify Equal Rights Amendment Dear Member of Congress: The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) strongly opposes House Joint Resolution 17,...
WASHINGTON – U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras (an appointee of President Barack Obama) today ruled that the ratification period for the Equal Rights Amendment, set in the ERA Resolution approved by Congress 49 years ago, was valid, and that the actions of the...