I can’t believe VA voted”yes!” We have a Republican Governor. Thank you for this, President Biden! My daughters, granddaughters, and my great granddaughter thank you as well!
That came across my news feed...why wont the archivist do her part? NPR said: "A senior administration official said that the archivist's role is "purely ministerial" in nature, meaning that the archivist is required to publish the amendment once it is ratified." And yes...the Republicans should absolutely show their hate towards women. I'll never understand such deep, generational misogyny... 🤦♀️
I'm waiting on Joyce Vance to comment. I'm sure she will. She'll have a much better understanding of the national archivist's obligations than I do. Anyone who opposes it, though, is demonstrating misogyny. Biden has forced their hand, there, which is pretty great. Trump will be pressured to order the national archivist to document the amendment, and if he dithers, people will say, "What? Since when do you care about what the national archivist thinks? Hello? Classified documents? Mar-a-Lago bathroom?"
Biden isn't doing anything here. Presidents have no operative or formal role in Constitutional amendments, either constitutionally or statutorily. The Archivist does have a statutory administrative role, but does not *decide* anything.
If the window for state ratifications had still been open (debated, but it wasn't), and none of the state ratifications' own references to the original deadline mattered (unclear why they wouldn't), and none of the withdrawals of ratifications counted (plausible), the amendment would have become opetative with the 38th state ratification.
Either the ERA has been in force since 2020, or the window for it to ever take force closed decades earlier.
I don't know how Amy Coney Barrett would vote, but overall I think there's a chance Republicans will ultimately regret her appointment. We can hope they won't have an opportunity to make another, or if they do, it will be a moderate one after the midterms, which of course would rely on the Dems taking back the Senate. Not that I trust the Dems much these days.
I'm pretty sure any version of the Court would agree, and probably by a larger margin. The mainstream ERA movement itself - including the National Organization for Women, League of Women Voters, and ACLU - recognized that the effort was dead in 1982. In terms of real Constitutional process, this whole latter-day revival was a fantasy.
I know nothing about you. I will stand by what i said about The American Bar Association (ABA) recognizing that the Equal Rights Amendment has cleared all necessary hurdles to be formally added to the Constitution as the 28th Amendment. Why would I defer to your opinion over the ABA? Are you yourself against the ERA? Is that your agenda? If it is, I don't really care, because your opposition to it is meaningless to me.
I'm not opposed to the ERA. Quite the opposite. But I am also in favor of constitutionalism, and opposed to presidents summarily declaring things (which I expect to be a real problem in the near future).
Apart from the guess about hypothetical Supreme Court rulings, nothing I've said here is my opinion; most of it is in the wikipedia article on the history of the proposed amendment, and well documented elsewhere. For example, NOW - a major part of the original movement to get the amendment through Congress - gives their chronology of the effort at https://now.org/resource/chronology-of-the-equal-rights-amendment-1923-1996/
. Notice the entry in 1982, "June 30: ERA is stopped three states short of ratification."
Yay! Sad that Phyllis Schlafly isn’t here to celebrate with us!!
I can’t believe VA voted”yes!” We have a Republican Governor. Thank you for this, President Biden! My daughters, granddaughters, and my great granddaughter thank you as well!
Biden is going out on a roll. Calling out oligarchy last night and elevating the ERA today, wow!
Finally. God bless President Joe Biden! A nation turns its longing eyes to you…
That came across my news feed...why wont the archivist do her part? NPR said: "A senior administration official said that the archivist's role is "purely ministerial" in nature, meaning that the archivist is required to publish the amendment once it is ratified." And yes...the Republicans should absolutely show their hate towards women. I'll never understand such deep, generational misogyny... 🤦♀️
I'm waiting on Joyce Vance to comment. I'm sure she will. She'll have a much better understanding of the national archivist's obligations than I do. Anyone who opposes it, though, is demonstrating misogyny. Biden has forced their hand, there, which is pretty great. Trump will be pressured to order the national archivist to document the amendment, and if he dithers, people will say, "What? Since when do you care about what the national archivist thinks? Hello? Classified documents? Mar-a-Lago bathroom?"
Exactly!!
Biden isn't doing anything here. Presidents have no operative or formal role in Constitutional amendments, either constitutionally or statutorily. The Archivist does have a statutory administrative role, but does not *decide* anything.
If the window for state ratifications had still been open (debated, but it wasn't), and none of the state ratifications' own references to the original deadline mattered (unclear why they wouldn't), and none of the withdrawals of ratifications counted (plausible), the amendment would have become opetative with the 38th state ratification.
Either the ERA has been in force since 2020, or the window for it to ever take force closed decades earlier.
It's safe to assume the current Supreme Court will declare the window closed by a 6-3 vote.
Or at least a 5-4.
I don't know how Amy Coney Barrett would vote, but overall I think there's a chance Republicans will ultimately regret her appointment. We can hope they won't have an opportunity to make another, or if they do, it will be a moderate one after the midterms, which of course would rely on the Dems taking back the Senate. Not that I trust the Dems much these days.
I'm pretty sure any version of the Court would agree, and probably by a larger margin. The mainstream ERA movement itself - including the National Organization for Women, League of Women Voters, and ACLU - recognized that the effort was dead in 1982. In terms of real Constitutional process, this whole latter-day revival was a fantasy.
I know nothing about you. I will stand by what i said about The American Bar Association (ABA) recognizing that the Equal Rights Amendment has cleared all necessary hurdles to be formally added to the Constitution as the 28th Amendment. Why would I defer to your opinion over the ABA? Are you yourself against the ERA? Is that your agenda? If it is, I don't really care, because your opposition to it is meaningless to me.
I'm not opposed to the ERA. Quite the opposite. But I am also in favor of constitutionalism, and opposed to presidents summarily declaring things (which I expect to be a real problem in the near future).
Apart from the guess about hypothetical Supreme Court rulings, nothing I've said here is my opinion; most of it is in the wikipedia article on the history of the proposed amendment, and well documented elsewhere. For example, NOW - a major part of the original movement to get the amendment through Congress - gives their chronology of the effort at https://now.org/resource/chronology-of-the-equal-rights-amendment-1923-1996/
. Notice the entry in 1982, "June 30: ERA is stopped three states short of ratification."