Isn't the Archives Department involved in this?

had an expiration clause written into it. I suppose an administration who didn't care about the rule of law could bulldoze it in, but it's not clear that the courts would uphold it. There's also the question of whether states are able to rescind ratification - I hope they can't, what with the calls for abolishing parts of the 14th amendment.

So pre-ratification, can states rescind their vote?

But after implementation there's no question that it's too late.

Not just because of the current republican majority on the court.

There was no greater defender of equal rights than RBG… and even she said it cannot be done.

There are always excuses and more excuses.

It is a total disgrace.

that is disgusting.

Any law benefiting white males could be passed pronto.

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The US Archivist says it’s not legal, though Biden can fire the archivist any time before Monday.

I think that's what I heard.

All women are precious. Without women there is nothing.

It's clear that from a legal point of view (i.e. that the argument otherwise doesn't have consensus) the ERA from the 1970s is dead. Why we don't hold a prominent vote for a new one every congress, put it in every Democratic state of the union, etc., is beyond me.

Senators will bring this subject forward. I'm pretty sure that they know how women are being sidelined.

I think most of the lobbying and murmuring is about trying to revive the 70s amdt. I know Collins and Murkowski were sponsors in the past.

I don't think it gets to 2/3, but rub the opposition in it for a generation.

Nor do archivists have any discretion to exercise in the matter (any more than VP Pence could reject electors).

Not, for that matter, does the MN Secretary of State have the power to determine a quorum in the state house.

there is no way this country will ever explicitly give women equal rights. Never.