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Bookmark or Share- Statement on the Equal Rights Amendment Ratification ProcessAt this time, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) cannot be certified as part of the Constitution due to established legal, judicial, and procedural decisions. “In 2020 and again in 2022, the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice affirmed that the ratification deadline established by Congress for the ERA is valid and enforceable.
- Congresswomen Bush, Pressley, Colleagues Urge President Biden to ...In March 2023, Congresswoman Bush, alongside Congresswoman Pressley, launched the first-ever Congressional Caucus for the Equal Rights Amendment. This caucus was launched exactly 100 years after the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was first introduced in Congress in 1923 to commemorate the centennial of the struggle for constitutional gender equality.
- H.J.Res.25 - Removing the deadline for the ratification of the equal ...This joint resolution provides that the Equal Rights Amendment, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, was ratified by three-fourths of the states and is therefore a valid constitutional amendment, regardless of any time limit that was in the original proposal.
- Equal Rights Amendment - WikipediaThe Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would, if added, explicitly prohibit sex discrimination. It was written by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman and first introduced in Congress in December 1923.
- Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) - Encyclopedia BritannicaEqual Rights Amendment (ERA), a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would invalidate many state and federal laws that discriminate against women; its central underlying principle is that sex should not determine the legal rights of men or women.
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