Schumer announces Senate will vote on the Equal Rights Amendment this week

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

The Senate will vote on the Equal Rights Amendment this week — 100 years after it was first introduced in Congress — Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Monday.

Schumer, speaking at Hunter College in New York, argued that the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and efforts to limit access to the abortion pill mifepristone, as well as state-level actions to roll back women’s rights, have made the ERA and its protections more critical than ever.

“In this ominous hour of American history, the Equal Rights Amendment has never been as necessary and urgent as it is today,” Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a statement Monday.

The proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution would guarantee equal rights under the law regardless of sex — meaning the Constitution would clearly state that women have equal rights as men. While the amendment was introduced in Congress in 1923 by leaders of the suffrage movement, it only passed in March 1972.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/24/era-schumer-senate-vote/

[walkingman]

1. If this happens and it passes, I suspect it will be challenged (not sure who) and

it will go to SCOTUS. Wonder how it will fare there?

[Warpy]

2. How, indeed? Those Federalist Society freaks think they're mindreaders

who know all the ins and outs of the eighteenth century mind that specifically excluded women and said black people were only 3/5 of a human being.

I wonder if they'll decide that women are human, at all. After all, there are a lot of laws and protections they sure as hell don't want applied to us.

[maxsolomon]

8. Not how Constitutional Amendments work.

1. Passes both houses of Congress. The Senate is half the equation.
2. Ratified by 3/4 of State Legislatures.

It won't pass the House, so this is performative. The GQP is the impediment, as always. NOT DEMS.

[flying_wahini]

3. Good luck Chuck.

The GOP hates independent women.

[LostOne4Ever]

4. It won't pass

But I am hoping I am proven wrong.

[Mawspam2]

5. A waste of time.

Passage requires a 67% vote in the Senate.
Then 67% of the House.
Then 75% of the states.

Yo Schumer, work on something you can do in the Senate.

[CapnSteve]

6. Current Status of ERA ratification:

The 1972 Version (aka The Second ERA):

76% of states have ratified (38 ratified, 12 not). Four states ratified after the deadline (extended).

House Joint Resolution 17 will remove any deadline requirement for the ratification of the ERA, and recognizes the ERA as valid and part of the Constitution whenever it has been ratified by 3/4 of the state legislatures. So, if the House and Senate both pass the resolution (by a majority vote, not a 2/3 vote – though the resolution would have to overcome the filibuster in the Senate, requiring 60 votes to move it to the floor for a majority vote), the ERA would become part of the U.S. Constitution, subject to subsequent legal challenges.

I think this would be an excellent time to get rid of the filibuster!


The Third ERA - 2021 (aka Fresh Start ERA):

This version starts the process over, requiring 2/3 of the House and Senate and 3/4 of states. It is broader and has no deadline, extending protection requirements to private corporations.

[Hekate]

7. It is NEVER a "waste of time" to do the right thing

What BS

[The Grand Illuminist]

9. Then we must elect pro Article V Democrats

in the state legislature.