Nearly fifty years ago, Congress approved a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, commonly referred to as the “Equal Rights Amendment (ERA),” stating that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
Half a century later, the question of whether the ERA has been ratified by a sufficient number of states still has not been resolved as a legal matter, although at least two federal trial courts have ruled that the time for ratifying the ERA has long since expired. But ERA proponents are not giving up, as evidenced as recently as last month when the House of Representatives on a party-line vote approved another resolution stating simply that the ERA shall be valid “whenever ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states,” in essence eliminating any time constraints.
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