'SenSchumer is trying to get a simple Senate majority to retroactively extend a deadline that it lacks the power to extend. But Republicans who vote for [it], even if they do support adoption of the Equal Rights Amendment, are suckers.' -freddoso
The joint resolution sending the ERA to the states passed both Houses of Congress in 1972 with the requisite two-thirds majorities needed for it to be sent to the states for ratification. It read as follows:
"Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification." ARE REPUBLICANS BUYING TRUMP'S NEUTRALITY IN SENATE PRIMARIES? Within the last couple of years, Democrat-controlled legislatures in Nevada, Illinois, and Virginia voted to ratify the ERA anyway, decades after the deadline.
If this is the reasoning of Ginsburg, who very sincerely supported the ERA, then it stands to reason that other justices will feel the same way — perhaps all nine of them.
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