Anonymous ID: f839e9 Jan. 16, 2020, 7:52 a.m. No.7829648   🗄️.is 🔗kun

"Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment celebrated on Wednesday when Virginia became the 38th state to approve the resolution. The measure to officially prohibit discrimination based on sex was approved by Congress back in 1972, but only 35 states passed it before the 1982 deadline, three short of the three-fourths majority needed for ratification.

In the past three years, legislatures in Nevada, Illinois, and now Virginia appear to have pushed the ERA over the hump. But now, supporters will have to argue that the 1982 deadline is not binding and the support from 35 states in the 1970s should be counted now to add the amendment to the Constitution, CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford reports."

 

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