Campaign Fund Of Jimmy Ausbrooks issued the following announcement on Nov 8.
Democrats in the U.S. House announced initial steps Friday to try to revive the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution, breathing new life into a fight that most thought had been dead for decades.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said he’s written legislation that would repeal the time limit written into the original ERA, giving states a new chance to ratify it.
The move comes just days after a change in power in Virginia’s assembly in Tuesday’s elections made that state almost certain to add its name to the list of ratifiers next year.
“After decades of work by tireless advocates, it is time for Congress to act and clear the way for Virginia, or any other state, to finally ratify the ERA and for discrimination on the basis of sex to be forever barred by the Constitution,” Mr. Nadler said.
The controversial amendment cleared Congress in the early 1970s, sending it to the states for ratification — a process that takes an affirmative vote of three-quarters of the states.
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