At least 3 protesters disrupted a Senate hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment, shouting at senators that the proposed amendment has already been ratified.
Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972, including a seven-year deadline for ratification by three-fourths of the states. By 1977, the number stood three short of the 38 required. Congress extended the deadline to 1982, but no additional states acted by the deadline.
The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the process would need to begin from scratch if the amendment were to be ratified. At a Georgetown Law School event, she said, "I was a proponent of the Equal Rights Amendment. I hope someday it will be put back in the political hopper and we'll be starting over again collecting the necessary states to ratify it.
More than 70 percent of Americans think we already have sex equality in our Constitution — but even after 100 years of struggle, we don't. Zakiya Thomas, president and CEO of the ERA Coalition and Fund for Women's EqualityIntermediate scrutiny leaves space for courts to consider biological differences where they matter, she said.
Braceras said courts have made clear that prisons can't separate based on race even if that would prevent gang violence, adding that is the right standard.
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