If state lawmakers pass the ERA, Virginia would become the 38th state to ratify it, and an amendment needs 38 states to be added to the Constitution. But a new legal opinion adds to the complexity.

On March 22, 1972, the U.S. Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment, sending the measure to the states for ratification in order for it to become a part of the U.S. Constitution, the ultimate law ...

That doesn’t mean the ERA is now in force. In 1972, when Congress originally sent the ERA to the states to be ratified, it set a deadline of 1979 for ratification, a deadline that was extended ...

The ERA included a ratification deadline of June 30, 1982. However - and this is pivotal - the 1982 deadline was established in the preamble of the amendment, ...

More specifically, we’ve been introduced to Gillibrand’s ERA Now Resolution, a novel strategy to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Before working for Gillibrand, we might have assumed that ...

In 1978, Congress voted to extend the ratification deadline to June 30, 1982, but the ERA still failed to reach the threshold of states until 2020, when Virginia finally ratified it.

Sen. Kristen Arrington and Rep. Johanna Lopez join the other female Democratic legislators from Orange County in calling for Joe Biden to ratify the ERA and send a message of equality to the world.

Under Article V of the Constitution, two-thirds of Congress can propose constitutional amendments and, after 50 years of trying, sent the Equal Rights Amendment to the states in March 1972 with a ...

In 1978, Congress voted to extend the ratification deadline to June 30, 1982, but the ERA still failed to reach the threshold of states until 2020, when Virginia finally ratified it.

President Joe Biden on Friday declared that the Equal Rights Amendment is the law of the land, attempting to ratify a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in a last-ditch effort to protect ...

Though several states contest their prior ratification of the ERA, there is no precedent to rescind ratifications. Several states attempted to revoke ratification of the 14th Amendment and failed.

Nor do ERA advocates argue that Congress’ ratification deadline for the ERA was questioned or disputed by anyone when it was proposed. Resolutions to propose the ERA had included ratification ...