.SenSchumer said a vote on a resolution to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment will happen this week — 100 years after the measure was introduced in Congress.
“We are here to stand united, and inch by inch restore, fight for, and expand women’s rights so that the women of today and the generations of tomorrow will not know a future with less access than their mothers had,” Schumer said in a statement.“The ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment would finally provide a constitutional remedy against sex discrimination — pushing our country one step closer to finally achieving equal justice under the law," he added.
Decades after the deadline had passed, states began moving toward ratification. Nevada became the 36th state to ratify the ERA in 2017. It was followed by Illinois in 2018, and most recently, Virginia ratified it in 2020. "Here we are, a century after its first introduction," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin said in the hearing."It's time to get the job done. In fact, it's long overdue."
“But because that power is pursuant to Congress's power to pretty much run the amendment process, it means that Congress can impose a deadline, change a deadline and remove a deadline,” Suk said. “Or another way of putting it is that the power that Congress has in Article 5 entails the possibility of forgiving any late ratifications since Congress was the one that put that time limit in the first place; the Constitution does not require any particular time limits on ratification.
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