[LWVNM Action] SJM on the ERA

[Ann LePage]

I agree.

Ann

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 4:29 PM Richard Mason via Action <
action at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:

> We have checked with the LWVUS and they have told us that this is
> important enough for us to support it.
>
> Dick Mason
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Meredith Machen via Action <action at mailman.swcp.com>
> To: E.K. VanWie <vanwieek at yahoo.com>; LWVNM Action <
> action at mailman.swcp.com>
> Cc: Meredith Machen <meredith.machen at 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 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
>
>
>
> *Eileen Kalberg VanWie*, *Ed.D.*
> Email: vanwieek at 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 1917*
>
> "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
>       Attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt - Circa 1940
>
>
> On Saturday, June 17, 2023, 08:02:11 AM MDT, Richard Mason via Action <
> action at 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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