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 ...
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 ...
In 2020, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the amendment. Biden and other advocates argue that the ERA itself did not mandate a timeline ... bolstering equal protection rights in 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 ...