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The resolution, "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women", reads, in part: [1] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States ...
New York Proposal 1 was a 2024 ballot proposal for a legislatively referred constitutional amendment to the New York Constitution called the Amendment to Protect Against Unequal Treatment, and informally known as the Equal Rights Amendment. It includes several rights in the New York State Constitution's Equal Protection Clause, with its chief ...
Codrington pointed to New York voters approving Proposition 1, a measure akin to the Equal Rights Amendment that also includes safeguards to abortion access, during the 2024 election. Biden says ...
Voters in the 2024 election would need to approve the amendment for it to become final. Democrats in New York have hoped putting an issue related to abortion on the ballot might spur voter turnout.
President Biden asserted the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, is part of the Constitution, arguing Friday it had met the criteria to be added as ...
In a 232-183 vote, the House approves a measure removing a 1982 deadline for state ratification in a bid to revive the Equal Rights Amendment. Feb. 28, 2023. A federal appeals court in Washington dismisses a case brought by two Democratic-led states seeking to have the U.S. archivist publish and certify the ERA as part of the Constitution.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment? The ERA is a 1970s-era prohibition on discrimination based on gender, guaranteeing men and women equal rights under the law. As a constitutional amendment, it needs ratification from three-quarters of the states before it's added to the U.S. Constitution. How long has the push to codify the ERA been going on?
The Equal Rights Amendment Caucus will reportedly "partner with advocates, activists, scholars, organizers, and public figures to establish a constitutional right to gender equality, and raise awareness". [2] The caucus will work to affirm the ERA as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. [3]