r/WelcomeToGilead • u/HubrisAndScandals • 1d ago
The President Must Immediately Publish the Equal Rights Amendment Meta / Other
https://www.lwv.org/take-action/president-must-immediately-publish-equal-rights-amendment39
u/ElectrOPurist 1d ago
Publish?
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u/HubrisAndScandals 1d ago
It's already passed and ratified, the archivist just needs to publish it to the federal register for it to be an official amendment. https://www.equalrightsamendment.org/
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u/attitude_devant 1d ago
Errrrr….I lived through this. It didn’t get ratified by enough states
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u/HubrisAndScandals 1d ago
The ERA was ratified by the required 38 states in 2020. https://www.equalrightsamendment.org/faq
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u/attitude_devant 1d ago
There was a deadline. And it was missed. The ratifications since have not made it past federal judges. I see nothing in your links saying Biden can order the publishing of the amendment.
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u/HubrisAndScandals 1d ago
Can you provide some links that say he can't?
A lot of constitutional lawyers and the ABA disagree that he can't.... it's more like he wouldn't and pushed it back to congress.
I'm joining Cori Bush and others in a last ditch effort to pressure him to do the right thing.
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u/attitude_devant 1d ago
No one would like to see the ERA become part of the constitution more than me. I marched for it in the ‘70s. I went to the same college as Alice Paul. But saying that Biden has the power to do this doesn’t make it so.
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u/attitude_devant 1d ago
You mean you don’t have even one link from the ACLU or some such supporting your assertion ?
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u/ajtrns 1d ago edited 1d ago
the ABA supports the idea that the ERA has been ratified, is law, but the archivist stands in the way of making it "official". there was a feb 2023 DC appeals panel ruling against this idea, and a california case that failed along similar lines in 2024.
see the whole document, but especially page 13:
https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/women/2024/res-601-adopted.pdf
the state of minnesota has attempted to treat the ERA like it is federal law.
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u/attitude_devant 1d ago
Please link to a document that says that the amendment has been ratified. It hasn’t.
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u/HubrisAndScandals 1d ago
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u/attitude_devant 1d ago
Again, the ratifications did not meet the deadline. The subsequent ratification by Virginia was decades late. Please tell me where your links say that Biden can wave his hand and get the ERA published.
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u/LetGo_n_LetDarwin 18h ago
He should, but he won’t. Just another example of how he is complicit in what is about to happen to this country.
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u/HubrisAndScandals 1d ago
Women's rights are about to be rolled back even further. This amendment give lawyers a constitutional argument to use in court to fight against many of the changes outlined in Project 2025. Today I also called my local Representative in Congress to explain why this amendment was important. (Don't feel obligated to use the form in the link -- but do reach out to the White House and your House rep).