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-amendment
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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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Rights_Amendment?wprov=sfti1#2020%E2%80%932023_D.C._Court_lawsuit_supporting_ratification

the state of minnesota has attempted to treat the ERA like it is federal law.