The good news? Senators Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins have signed on to SJ Res 1. Google the statistics on how many women and trans people die in this country every day. Congress can remove the deadline, but will they? It’s a nail-biter of a conundrum, keeping American women frighteningly close to permanent second-class status in the United States, dependent on the will of Republican Senators, and even Democratic ones, who so far have not agreed to a vote. It asks for removal of the arbitrary timeline on the ERA. SJ Res 1 has not yet made it to the Senate floor. If Voting Rights haunts you, women’s and LGBTQ rights sit in the same place, stymied by missing Republican - and maybe even rogue Democratic - votes. However, instead of simply overturning the Trump/Barr memo that recognized the false validity of that arbitrary timeline, President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland kicked the issue to the Senate, of all places. The memo was sent in 2020, when Trump was still president, telling the archivist not to sign the ERA into law based on an arbitrary - and I say sexist - deadline put into the fine print by opposition to the ERA in the 1970s. It is the most confusing and ridiculous display of institutionalized sexism, gaslighting, and proof of the ineffectuality of our current political system imaginable.īasically, the ERA is being held up from being published as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution due to a technicality: a Trump/Barr technicality - a memo that went to the then and now current National Archivist, who is soon to retire. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) sits in an extremely precarious and historically unprecedented position at the moment.
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