Conquer Club

bigtoughralf wrote:Why do US people not want women to to be equal to men?

Once again, Democrats are pushing to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. They’re beating a dead horse.

Over the years, more than 1,100 resolutions proposing an Equal Rights Amendment have been introduced in Congress. Only one – House Joint Resolution 208, proposed in 1972 – received the two-thirds support needed to be sent to the states.

That resolution had a seven-year deadline for ratification.

At least 38 states needed to approve the amendment, but, by early 1977, confirmations stopped at 35 — and five of those states quickly rescinded their approval. The March 1979 deadline passed without additional approvals, as did an extended deadline Congress tried to set. As the Congressional Research Services puts it, the ERA “formally died on June 30, 1982.” Pretending otherwise makes a mockery of the legislative process.

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Pretending that Congress has the power to extend the time limit for a failed constitutional amendment that has not existed for more than 40 years is absurd. ERA supporters should instead follow the advice of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

As a law professor in 1977, Ginsburg drafted a report for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights acknowledging that the 1972 ERA could become part of the Constitution only if ratified within its original seven-year deadline. Forty-three years later, as a justice, Ginsburg said that ERA supporters should “start over.”

bigtoughralf wrote:TIL jp4 thinks equality is impossible to achieve if not in place by March 1979

jusplay4fun wrote:The first POINT is that women in the USA ALREADY have the Equal Rights and there is NO need for an Amendment (ERA or Equal Rights Amendment).

If you kept up you would KNOW that. Stop trying to make an issue of something that is NOT an issue.

And, 2nd point, the deadline for the ERA has LONG ago EXPIRED.

Once again, Democrats are pushing to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. They’re beating a dead horse.

Over the years, more than 1,100 resolutions proposing an Equal Rights Amendment have been introduced in Congress. Only one – House Joint Resolution 208, proposed in 1972 – received the two-thirds support needed to be sent to the states.

That resolution had a seven-year deadline for ratification.

At least 38 states needed to approve the amendment, but, by early 1977, confirmations stopped at 35 — and five of those states quickly rescinded their approval. The March 1979 deadline passed without additional approvals, as did an extended deadline Congress tried to set. As the Congressional Research Services puts it, the ERA “formally died on June 30, 1982.” Pretending otherwise makes a mockery of the legislative process.

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Pretending that Congress has the power to extend the time limit for a failed constitutional amendment that has not existed for more than 40 years is absurd. ERA supporters should instead follow the advice of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

As a law professor in 1977, Ginsburg drafted a report for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights acknowledging that the 1972 ERA could become part of the Constitution only if ratified within its original seven-year deadline. Forty-three years later, as a justice, Ginsburg said that ERA supporters should “start over.”

https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/3845407-the-equal-rights-amendment-is-still-dead/