Biden needs to protect America.

go to the USSC to determine if those states could rescind their vote. The Constitution does not address that. I will speculate that the current USSC would rule in a manner that we would want.

All things considered. But is there anything to lose by trying?

I don't think there would be anything to lose by trying.

RGB said we need to start over.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/10/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-equal-rights-amendment/index.html

We look really bad if we ignore it and try to ratify it anywsy. RGB even said that it needs to start over.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/10/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-equal-rights-amendment/index.html

They just leave it to the Congress that set a ratification deadline and then extended it to 1982… and/ir the congresses that have rejected resolutions to consider it ratified.

Allowing the president to declare it ratified by fiat is not “leaving it in the hands of Congress”

Sure, it will be challenged in the courts but that should resolve some of the unanswered questions. The two big ones being can a State ratify and then de-ratify? Is there a time limit for ratification and if so, what is it?

Let the SC and Republicans try to un-wind it and explain why women should not have equal rights.

public. At least do as much as he can NOW.

The ERA had a sunset date of many years ago, which allegedly erases all the prior state ratifications. The final needed ratifications came after the sunset date.

That is likely the reason Biden hasn’t directed the archive to act- he’s probably been advised it would be challenged and overturned in court.

doesn't necessarily have that time limit

You can't just remove an expiration date after it expires. The 2021 congressional vote overstepped their boundaries.

You can't pass a resolution in the House in one congressional term (117th) , and then pass it in the Senate years later under a new congress (118th).

RGB even said that we need to start over.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/10/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-equal-rights-amendment/index.html

Plus, a few states rescinded.

... certify the ERA and publish it in the Federal Register, which would formally cement it as part of the U.S. Constitution. Do it 'NOW', Joe.

didn't it become an amendment ? And if the answer is it has to be certified and put in the Fed Register why wasn’t it done by past Dem Presidents. Please explain.

asked the same question a few days ago because I kept seeing ads calling for the ERA to be recognized by Biden.


https://democraticunderground.com/100219778107

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Thank you. Let's get it done.

what Biden could do is send the Archivist a letter stating that the Amendment has been ratified and listing the states which have voted for ir.

No, IANAL, but I got that from a pretty good one = Robert Hubbell on Substack.

Do this please

all Joe has to do is send the archivist a letter requesting it .

Besides, the date had been extended from 1979 to 1982 and for some bizarre reason wasn't extended further.

Just put get the ERA in the Constitution, period.