Anonymous ID: 2ab654 Feb. 11, 2020, 1:17 p.m. No.8104711   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4775

Ruth Bader Ginsburg probably just dealt a fatal blow to the Equal Rights Amendment

A half-century-long fight for equality is likely at an end.

By Ian Millhiser

Feb 11, 2020

 

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most important feminist lawyer in American history. Long before she became a judge, she convinced the Supreme Court to hold that gender discrimination can violate the Constitution. She spent many of the following years working to strengthen those protections for women.

 

Yet Ginsburg said on Monday that one of her life’s goals — writing a strong prohibition against gender discrimination into the Constitution — must be put on hold.

 

At an event at Georgetown University’s law school, moderator and federal appellate judge Margaret McKeown asked Ginsburg about an ongoing effort to revive the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which provides that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”

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Ginsburg’s comments on Monday suggest that she believes this 1982 deadline should be considered binding. “I would like to see a new beginning” for ERA ratification, the justice told McKeown.

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Ginsburg’s comments are likely to be the death knell for the ERA. Without Ginsburg’s vote, it’s tough to imagine that five members of the Supreme Court would agree the ERA was properly ratified. And while Congress could, in theory, start the ratification process over again, it’s also hard to imagine two-thirds of the House and Senate agreeing to do so in an age when Congress often struggles to perform basic functions like funding the government.

 

https://www.vox.com/2020/2/11/21133029/ruth-bader-ginsburg-equal-rights-amendment-supreme-court

Anonymous ID: 2ab654 Feb. 11, 2020, 1:22 p.m. No.8104749   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4782 >>4786

>>8104547

CONFIRMED

Shimon Prokupecz

@ShimonPro

!!! A second Roger Stone prosecutor has withdrawn and resigned his job.

Jonathan Kravis notified the court that he is withdrawing and in his filing said he is resigning from the DC US Attorney’s Office.

4:07 PM · Feb 11, 2020·

 

https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/1227338339772063745