In 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment, designed to guarantee protection against sexual discrimination for women under the law, passed both houses of Congress and was sent to the individual states for ...
The 1923 amendment says: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be ... argument that the Constitution says nothing about a timeline for ratification, and that Biden’s statement did ...
Before leaving office, former President Joe Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) “the law of the land.” The 28 th Amendment, which declares that “Equality of rights under the law ...
Fifty-two years ago, Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment and ... Trump administration that declared a timeline that was not part of the approved amendment had been exceeded, and the ...
Ironically, the very same amendment that was written to ensure equal rights for African Americans now provides a mechanism to make them second-class citizens. In many states, tens of thousands of ...
Luke Bierman ’79, the A. Lindsay O’Connor chair of American institutions in the political science department, hosted a ...
An equal rights amendment didn't pass in the DFL trifecta, but some Republicans say they could support one without abortion ...