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July 7, 2020 VoteERA.org filed an Amicus Brief in support of the Plaintiffs (in support of the Federal ERA) IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, STATE OF ILLINOIS, and STATE OF NEVADA, Plaintiffs, v.
DAVID S. FERRIERO, in his official capacity as Archivist of the United States, Defendant.
After Virginia became the final and 38th state to ratify the federal ERA IN January 2020, the National Archivist who publishes, certifies and declares when a new constitutional amendment has been ratified has refused to complete this process for the ERA.
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The Federal ERA was introduced in Congress in 1923 and has been introduced every year since. Women still do not have equality in the U.S. Constitution.
"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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The Equal Rights Amendment was written in 1923 by Alice Paul who said "I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality."
Suffragist Alice Stokes Paul (1885-1977) Interview, February 1974
Alice Paul said women gaining the right to vote was only the first step in full equality.
Removal of Statute of Limitations News
April 17, 2015
There should be no statute of limitations for rape (Opinion) by Danielle Tudor
"To me, 12 years for other rape cases is only a Band-Aid fix; I want to eliminate any statute of limitations..."
March 1, 2018
Her rape kit sat untested for 22 years.
Oregon police say they just found a DNA match.
"A 2015 survey by USA Today found more than 70,000 rape kits had gone untested across the United States..." Read more
