We have checked with the LWVUS and they have told us that this is important enough for us to support it.
Dick Mason_______________________________________________
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From: Meredith Machen via Action <action@mailman.swcp.com>
To: E.K. VanWie <vanwieek@yahoo.com>; LWVNM Action <action@mailman.swcp.com>
Cc: Meredith Machen <meredith.machen@gmail.com>
Sent: Wed, Jun 21, 2023 3:48 pm
Subject: Re: [LWVNM Action] SJM on the ERA
President Biden doesn't have the authority to order the ERA to be published.EXCERPT from MS. explainer"WHY the Equal Rights Amendment has NOW BECOME SUPREMELY IMPORTANT IN PROTECTING A WHOLE RANGE OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS, PERSONAL FREEDOMS, AND DEMOCRACY.Despite the fact that 3/4th’s of the States completed ratification in 2020 there’s a problem: in 1972 Congress added to the preamble of the ERA an arbitrary timeline of 1979 (later extended by Congress to 1982) to complete the ratification process. Even though the Constitution itself imposes no time limit on ratification of proposed amendments, the timeline was used by the Trump Justice Department to block final enshrinement of the ERA in the Constitution.HOWEVER...fueled by the results of the 2022 elections and anger over the overturning of Roe v. Wade and other threats to personal freedoms, members in the U.S. House and Senate introduced a Joint Resolution to remove the timeline and to declare the ERA has been ratified and is the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. Passage of this Resolution by a simple majority vote in both the Senate and House would formally enshrine the ERA in the Constitution."^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^BUT before the Senate can proceed to a vote on the resolution itself, 60 votes are needed for the resolution to be considered because of filibuster rules. On April 23, as I recall, Sen. Schumer got 58. He vowed to try again.Meredith Machen505 577-6337
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 10:14 PM E.K. VanWie via Action <action@mailman.swcp.com> wrote:_______________________________________________That's great, Dick! I'd love to help support it.EileenEileen Kalberg VanWie, Ed.D.
Email: vanwieek@yahoo.com
"We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity."Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1866"To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality."Alice Paul - Circa 1917On Saturday, June 17, 2023, 08:02:11 AM MDT, Richard Mason via Action <action@mailman.swcp.com> wrote:_______________________________________________In the 2024 session the LWVNM will be working with Senator Hemphill to introduce and pass a SJM similar to SJM10 that the Senator introduced in 2023 - attached.Dick Mason
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