[LWVNM Action] SJM on the ERA

[Meredith Machen]

*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 Machen
meredith.machen at gmail.com
505 577-6337


On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 10:14 PM E.K. VanWie via Action <
action at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:

> That's great, Dick!  I'd love to help support it.
> Eileen
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> *Eileen Kalberg VanWie*, *Ed.D.*
> Email: vanwieek at yahoo.com
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> "We are all bound up together in one great bundle of
> humanity."
>                Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1866
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> "To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality."
>         *Alice Paul - Circa 1917*
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> "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
>       Attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt - Circa 1940
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> On Saturday, June 17, 2023, 08:02:11 AM MDT, Richard Mason via Action <
> action at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
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> 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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