One More To Go: Illinois Ratifies Equal Rights Amendment
6 years, 10 months ago

One More To Go: Illinois Ratifies Equal Rights Amendment

NPR  

One More To Go: Illinois Ratifies Equal Rights Amendment Enlarge this image toggle caption AP AP Illinois lawmakers have voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, affirming equal rights for women and putting the legislation just one state away from potentially being adopted by the U.S. Constitution. "The ACLU has long supported the ERA and the effort to explicitly guarantee all women equal rights under the Constitution," Lenora Lapidus, director of the ACLU Women's Rights Project, said in a statement to NPR. "Virginia could — and should — put the Equal Rights Amendment over the top," Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., said in a tweet on Thursday. Sponsor Message "Alice Paul actually drafted the original Equal Rights Amendment and its updated text later in the '40s," Jennifer Krafchik, acting executive director of the Belmont-Paul National Monument, told NPR in 2016.

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Latest push to revive Equal Rights Amendment fails in Senate
1 year, 11 months ago

Latest push to revive Equal Rights Amendment fails in Senate

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic measure to revive …

House acts to remove deadline for Equal Rights Amendment
5 years, 1 month ago

House acts to remove deadline for Equal Rights Amendment

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — In a bid to revive the Equal Rights Amendment, the House on Thursday approved a measure removing a 1982 deadline for state ratification and reopening the process to amend the Constitution to prohibit discrimination based on sex. Nearly 50 years after it was first approved by Congress and sent to the states, the Equal Rights Amendment “is just …

Ginsburg: Equal Rights Amendment backers should start over
5 years, 1 month ago

Ginsburg: Equal Rights Amendment backers should start over

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Monday that those like her who support an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution should start over in trying to get it passed rather than counting on breathing life into the failed attempt from the 1970s. “I’d like it to start over.” Congress sent the amendment, which guarantees men and women …

Editorial: After nearly 50 years, the Equal Rights Amendment finally has a chance. Thanks, Virginia
5 years, 4 months ago

Editorial: After nearly 50 years, the Equal Rights Amendment finally has a chance. Thanks, Virginia

LA Times  

The blue wave that flipped the Virginia Legislature last week was a victory for Democrats in the commonwealth, who will now be in control for the first time in more than 20 years. Because now that Democrats are in charge of both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, the Equal Rights Amendment might finally be approved there, which would mean …

Editorial: C’mon Arizona. Be brave and take a stand for women’s rights
6 years ago

Editorial: C’mon Arizona. Be brave and take a stand for women’s rights

LA Times  

A group of women disrupt the Illinois House in Springfield, Ill. on June 17, 1982. Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972 and sent it to the states for ratification. We hope Arizona’s Republicans get out of the way and let legislators vote — if not for women, then at least for the sake of their own political careers. …

Illinois becomes the 37th state to ratify the federal ERA
6 years, 10 months ago

Illinois becomes the 37th state to ratify the federal ERA

Associated Press  

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois on Wednesday became the 37th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, putting the country only one state away from a landmark change to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing equal rights for women. Rep. Lou Lang, the Skokie Democrat who “Is the Illinois House for or against adding 161 million American citizens to the U.S. Constitution where …

Thirty-five years past a deadline set by Congress, Nevada ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment
8 years ago

Thirty-five years past a deadline set by Congress, Nevada ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment

LA Times  

The moment felt historic enough that some lawmakers in Nevada’s Capitol autographed paper copies of the resolution. Nevada’s state Assembly voted Monday 28-14 to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment — 35 years past the deadline set by Congress and four decades since the last state voted to adopt its language. Terry O’Neill, president of NOW, said she hoped Nevada’s ratification …

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