Over 120 Democratic lawmakers have called on President Biden to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), arguing that it's a crucial step in protecting Americans from former President Trump's far-right agenda.
With weeks to go until President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office with a Republican trifecta in the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives, more that 120 Democratic lawmakers on Sunday called on President Joe Biden to take a crucial step toward protecting millions of Americans from Trump 's far-right MAGA agenda by ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment .The ERA was passed by Congress in 1972, and met the requirement for it to be ratified by three-fourths of U.S.
states in 2020, when Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the amendment. Yet during his first term, Trump and the Republican party blocked the implementation of the ERA, claiming that since nearly 50 years passed in between the amendment's passage and the meeting of the ratification requirement, the threshold was not achieved by the deadline set by Congress. 'No Republican would care about' the deadline, said journalist Emma Vigeland, 'if roles were reversed.' Citing the U.S. Code, Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Cori Bush (D-Mo.)—co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus for the Equal Rights Amendment—led their colleagues in telling Biden that the national Archivist, Colleen Shogan, is required to certify an amendment 'when the National Archives and Records Administration receives official notice that a proposed amendment to the Constitution has been approved by enough states.'All Biden has to do to ratify the amendment, which would explicitly outlaw sex and gender discrimination, is direct Shogan to publish the ERA, said the lawmakers. 'Solidifying your legacy on equal rights with a final action on the ERA would be a defining moment for the historic Biden-Harris administration and your presidency,' wrote the representatives, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.), and James McGovern (D-Mass.). Earlier this month, 46 U.S. senators joined the call for Biden to ratify the ERA. As Trump has bragged about his hand in the U.S
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