January 17, 2025
WSJ
"Biden Says Equal Rights Amendment Is the 'Law of the Land.'
'The ERA's deadline expired decades ago, but the president argues that recent approvals by three states put the amendment over the top.'
CURRENT NEWS:
JANUARY 17, 2025
Today: President Biden issued a formal Whitehouse letter statement.
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Is the
28th Amendment in the U.S. Constitution.
President Biden has the power to expressly direct the Archivist to publish the ERA. President Biden has not directed the Archivist to publish the ERA. Today was only a Presidential statement, but one that should provide weight for any potential legal challenges.
The role of the National Archivist is ministerial. The Archivist's role is to publish amendments to the constitutional once 38 states have ratified an amendment. Thirty-eight states have ratified the federal ERA.
Any potential legal challenges should be left to the Court.
President Biden should direct the Archivist to publish the ERA.
Today is the last day before the new administration takes over
January 20, 2025.
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Other News:
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.
JOIN TO HELP PASS THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT IN THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
Join our campaign to help pass the Federal Equal Rights Amendment!
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."
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.
VoteERA.org working for citizens in Oregon
2014 VoteERA.org created the ERA initiative amending the Oregon Constitution with women's equality. Oregon voters passed the Oregon ERA overwhelmingly. Read more