Lawmakers and activists continue to build movement towards passing state-level ERAs across the nation, with Nevada having passed an expansive state ERA in 2023, and New York and Minnesota headed towards election season in the next year. The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) released a memo further reaffirming Congress’s Article V authority to pass a resolution to recognize the ratification of the ERA. Under the direction of the Biden Administration, the current National Archivist has not certified and published the ERA. Congress to take action by voting to remove the deadline on the ERA. The ruling was ultimately dismissed on procedural grounds, and only reaffirmed the necessity for the U.S. Archivist David Ferriero certifies that the ERA has been ratified by the required 38 states. Ferriero, a case brought forth by Attorneys General from Virginia, Illinois, and Nevada demanding that former U.S. On February 28, 2023, a federal appeals court dismissed Illinois v. Text of ERA: Equality of rights under the law shall not. Sign this petition at to demand that your representative votes YES on HJ Res 25. Ultimately the ERA did not receive the necessary amount of support to be added into the Constitution. House of Representatives to remove the deadline on the ERA. In the House, Congresswoman Pressley introduced HJ Res 25 to remove the deadline on the ERA’s ratification. The Complete Text of the Equal Rights Amendment Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on. Under their leadership as co-chairs, the caucus affirmed the ERA as the 28th amendment and renewed commitment for the ERA’s passage in Congress. On March 28th, 2023, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley and Congresswoman Cori Bush launched the first ever Congressional Caucus for the Equal Rights Amendment. This vote failed due to a bipartisan, yet insufficient, 53 votes to overcome the filibuster. On April 27th, 2023, the Senate voted on SJ Res 4 to remove the deadline on the ratification of the ERA. Equality of Rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex. However, now both houses of Congress must remove the ERA’s arbitrarily imposed deadline in order for its publication and certification into the U.S.
The ERA has reached the 38-state threshold needed to ratify a constitutional amendment. Illinois followed the state of Nevada that in 2017, after ERA supporters won Democratic majorities in both houses of the state legislature in the 2016 election, became the 36th state to ratify. Virginia delegate Jennifer Carroll Foy on House floor for ratification vote on ERA.Ī year and a half earlier, in 2018, the Illinois state legislature became the 37th state to ratify the ERA.
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