Equal Rights Amendment finally had enough states ratify it in Jan 2020 BUT the deadline had already passed so now it’s in this weird unknown place where Congress needs to do something but they won’t b/c they suck ☹️
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The American Bar Association released a resolution in August saying that deadline is irrelevant. Biden could ask the Archivist (again) to publish it TODAY.
Congress has to waive the expiration date b/c Congress set it. Biden can do nothing except write a statement (which he did in August) ABA has no power or authority to do anything
Check out the ABA resolution text. The time limit doesn’t apply to the amendment. States ratified the text of the amendment not the time limit. The 27th amendment was ratified 200 years after it was approved by Congress and was added as soon as the 38th state ratified.
The ABA has no authority to declare anything-everyone can have an opinion. I understand the process and what happened > the ABA is not a proper authority on this.
Judge Contreras (Obama) ruled deadline binding. Then a unanimous DC Circuit panel rejected the claim that the ERA had been ratified (on p. 25, the panel demolished the core legal claim against the deadline). The ruling was written by Judge Wilkins (Obama), joined by Childs (Biden) and Rao (Trump).
We're such a vacuous nation. Remind us again how many women voted for this current situation? Because they've lost it all. They no longer have any autonomy over their very being. Imagine, even a cow or horse in a pasture has more autonomy.
The constitutional role of Congress ended when it submitted the proposal to the states on March 22, 1972. The 1972 ERA ceased to exist when the deadline passed without having been ratified. The only effectual route open to Congress is to submit a new amendment proposal, with or without a deadline.
My congressman is Tim Birdshit , so there is no use contacting him. He'd just laugh and say they weren't going to do anything, just like he did after the Covenant School shooting in Nashville.
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