Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
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January 12, 2022 |
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BY ROXY SZAL | It’s January 2022—almost 100 years since the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was first proposed by Alice Paul and introduced in Congress. And with the start of the new year, legal wrangling for the proposed 28th Amendment to the Constitution is ramping back up.
Democratic Attorneys General Aaron Ford of Nevada, Kwame Raoul of Illinois, and Mark Herring of Virginia—the last three states to ratify the ERA—filed a formal appeal with a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in May last year attempting to force the U.S. archivist David S. Ferriero to publish the ERA to the Constitution. The suit seeks review of a lower court decision in March 2021 that dismissed the original January 2020 case filed by the Democratic AGs—as “laudable as their motives may be,” wrote the district court judge.
On January 3, AGs Ford, Raoul and Herring filed opening briefs in the case aiming to reverse the lower court’s decision. Such a reversal of the dismissal, they argue, will vindicate their states’ “sovereign prerogative to ratify amendments that bring our foundational document in line with our Nation’s values.”
The ERA has been properly ratified by the states and any attempt to prevent its inclusion in the Constitution is without basis in law,” said Virginia AG Herring. “The Equal Rights Amendment will finally ensure true equality in our nation’s foundational document and correct an injustice of historic proportions.”
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