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Today at Ms. | January 12, 2022 |
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Lawmakers and Women’s Equality Advocates Continue Legal Effort for Recognition of ERA: “We Need to Remedy the Systemic Causes of Sex Inequality” |
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.
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BY LIZA LIEBERMAN | In one of its last sessions of 2021, Congress passed a pared-down version of the Military Family Basic Needs Allowance as part of the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). This marks an important first step toward closing gaps in our social safety net through which currently-serving military families have been allowed to fall. But it’s miles from enough.
In the wake of Congress’s lackluster response, it is more urgent than ever for the administration to use its authority to take action on concrete, long-term solutions to address military hunger.
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20 Years After the First Detainees Arrived at Guantanamo, “The Mauritanian” Depicts One Innocent Man’s Fight for Freedom |
BY SUMMER DITONA | It’s been 20 years since the first detainees arrived at Guantanamo Bay. Adapted from the bestselling memoir Guantanamo Diary, The Mauritanian reveals how America’s intense need for retribution in the aftermath of 9/11 resulted in the imprisonment and torture of hundreds of Muslim men at Guantanamo Bay. More importantly, though, it highlights why President Joe Biden must indefinitely close the notoriously violent prison.
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