Virginia Gives the Equal Rights Amendment Chance being 38th state to be one adding to COTUS! WHEE!

[Baz Ares]

Democrats’ Romp in Virginia Gives the Equal Rights Amendment a Fighting Chance
State Democrats’ promise to pass the ERA opens a path to making a long-overdue change to the U.S. Constitution
Tuesday’s election results all but guarantee that another monumental issue will move itself front and center next year: the battle over the Equal Rights Amendment.
Democrats’ Romp in Virginia Gives the Equal Rights Amendment a Fighting Chance

 

[Baz Ares]

At various times, in 7 of the 13 non-ratifying states, one house of the legislature approved the ERA. It failed in those states because both houses of a state's legislature must approve, during the same session, in order for that state to be deemed to have ratified.

Virginia: State Senate voted to ratify the ERA on February 7, 2011, with a tally of 24 to 16 (Senate Joint Resolution No. 357); a second time on February 14, 2012, with a tally of 24 to 15 (Senate Joint Resolution No. 130); a third time on February 5, 2014, with a tally of 25 to 8 (Senate Joint Resolution No. 78); a fourth time on February 5, 2015, with a tally of 20 to 19 (Senate Joint Resolution No. 216);[69] a fifth time on January 26, 2016, with a tally of 21 to 19 (Senate Joint Resolution No. 1);[70] and a sixth time on January 15, 2019, with a tally of 26 to 14 (Senate Joint Resolution No. 284).

They have full control of all now to pass it in one session now.
This Gov guy gets to pass lots of laws now. But does in change
guy's past? Will he lose re-election when it comes time, even signing in so much good in the state?

 

[Oddball]

You do realize the the women whom you would hope to attract with this obvious virtue signalling won't schtupp you anyway, don't you?

 

[Baz Ares]

Equal Rights Amendment: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John lists off states: "Somebody please do it before Florida because I don't want to give them credit for this"

 

[TNHarley]

Wtf is the equal rights amendment?

 

[Pellinore]

Wtf is the equal rights amendment?

It's a proposed amendment to the Constitution, saying that equal rights under the law are not to be abridged based on sex. It was written right after women got the vote, and finally passed by Congress in 1972 with a seven-year deadline, which expired in 1979 without meeting its 3/4 of the states requirement. Recently, ERA proponents have begun to question whether a proposed amendment can have that kind of "sunset" clause at all (the 27th Amendment was passed after a more than 200-year gap) so in recent years a few more states have ratified it, and the count is now 37, out of 38 needed. Complicating the matter, four states have voted to "unratify," which the Constitution says nothing about for or against (so that would be a court case), one more wrote in its own sunset clause set for 1979 (so that would be another), and another handful of states, including Virginia, have ratified it in one chamber but not the other.

There are a lot of ways it can go. If nothing else, it's an interesting case study in amendment procedures.

 

[fncceo]

Wtf is the equal rights amendment?

Something from the '80s like leg warmers, VHS tapes, and 8-bit games.