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@natematias@social.coopFascinated by the 11th hour effort to ask the Biden administration to publish the Equal Rights Amendment as an official part of the constitution.
Basically: 75% of states have now ratified it (after Virginia voted for it in 2020), but the original bill included a 7 year time limit that was unusual and may not be constitutional. So advocates are asking the White House to support the archivist to certify it as a part of the constitution, and then come the legal fights
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/what-comes-next-for-the-equal-rights-amendment/
The link from the Center for American Progress is the most thorough explainer of the wider situation. Here's an article about this week's effort by Democrats to convince the White House to let the archivist certify the ERA:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/us/politics/gillibrand-biden-equal-rights-amendment.html
Whatever the outcome, work on the Equal Rights Amendment is an extraordinary example of 50+ years of work by people who have surely known that they were working on necessary but insufficient parts of a wider effort for equality.
Grateful for everyone who keeps plugging away for the common good, knowing that our one piece can't achieve change alone, but hoping that our part of the solution will be ready when the other parts are ready too.
@natematias Unfortunately,, that is one major gap in the Constitution #History https://traffic.libsyn.com/yinhistory/EP33-Womens_RIghts.mp3
@natematias Hell, why not? If the Trump era has taught us anything it ought to be that there’s no real penalties for swinging for the fences.