Senate Democrats will call up a resolution aimed at adding the Equal Rights Amendment ERA passed the 38-state ratification threshold in 2020 but was kept from becoming law because of a deadline placed by Congress in the 1970s
Sen. Chuck Schumer defended the delayed reaction to China's spy flights on Sunday and said the U.S. gathered "enormous intelligence" before it was shot down over the Atlantic Ocean.
"In this ominous hour of American history, the Equal Rights Amendment has never been as necessary and urgent as it is today," Schumer said in a press release on Monday evening."Recent events like the Supreme Court’s horrible , uncertainty with critical care drugs like Mifepristone, and a slew of proposed state actions have women in this country facing an uncertain future."
Marchers hold signs that say,"ERA USA" and"We Are not Asking for Permission, We Want Equality Now" during the Womans March in the borough of Manhattan in New York on Jan. 18, 2020,and 2020, respectivelyNow, Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Ben Cardin, D-Md., are working on a bipartisan resolution that would remove what Schumer’s press release called the"arbitrary deadline" for ratification in the original bill that passed decades ago.
However, critics of the ERA argue that it is unnecessary given the protections bestowed by the 14th Amendment and other more targeted laws, like the Equal Pay Act and Pregnancy Discrimination Act.
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