ERA, 28th Amendment Possibly Ratified, now part of constitution

[Mr. Reactionary]

If this vote passes (which I expect it will), it will be the final step towards adding the ERA to the constitution.
The amendment would come into effect on 1/15/2022 due to the 2 year delay clause in the text of the Amendment. Until then, all that is left to do is wait it out.

Its not valid though so this is just a waste of time and $ on virtue signaling. Given that the deadline expired 40 years ago and 4 states have withdrawn their ratification, even RBG said the ERA process needs to be restarted. It possibly wont even be done with court by January 2022. After the AG memo last week I dont see the Archivist accepting the amendment in 2020.

[Mr. Reactionary]

...so anything going on with this?

Hypocritical Attorney General blackface is wasting a bunch of taxpayer money to frivolously sue over this. Nothing will be known for years, at which point the Court will confirm what we already know: that this is nothing but a big waste of time and money by virtue signaling SJWs.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is advising Equal Rights Amendment supporters to start over from scratch:

Ginsburg: Equal Rights Amendment backers should start over

In which case, there should be no arbitrary deadlines this time around.  

She's been saying this for a while now. The idiots pushing for meaningless "ratification" simply ignored it.

its not about them being legally correct, its about them claiming some sort of moral superiority to virtue signal to the nuts.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Wulfric and Ernest:

Whatta cockamamie way to run a government! Even though it is clear that when we propose a constitutional amendment, we have to propose it with a two-third majority in both chambers, we will "consider" ourselves capable of subsequently tinkering with the proposed amendment by simple majorities if we want to, for example, extend the deadline for ratification. As far as I'm concerned, no they can't! As far as I'm concerned, the ERA is dead as a doornail.

So I have included a mini-ERA in my proposal for rewriting the 14th Amendment. although I have explicitly written my proposal to state that it does not authorize the federal government to treat abortion rights as protected by the ERA clause within the proposal.

Remember that is a major reason why so many states have refused to ratify the ERA and some even subsequently rescinded their ratification: because those states oppose abortion and they fear that the ERA will effectively codify Roe v. Wade into the Constitution.

The funny thing is, if we accept the new nomenclature and demands from woke culture about transpeople, then a transman really is just a man, and therefore can get pregnant and have abortions, therefore abortion restrictions applied equally to women and transmen do not discriminate on sex and the ERA abortion argument is neutered (pun not intended).

[Mr. Reactionary]

The fight isn't over yet:

Democratic AGs, including Virginia’s Mark Herring, continue fight seeking recognition of ERA

If this were brought before the Supreme Court (now that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been replaced by Amy Coney Barrett), how does everyone expect them to rule?  Will it be an overwhelming rejection of their case, thereby forcing Equal Rights Amendment proponents to start over?  

I don't think it would even get heard, probably on the grounds that the issue was settled in NOW v Idaho, or something like that.

Yeah. This would never make it off the shadow docket especially when Virginia withdraws from this frivolous lawsuit in 2 weeks. A SCOTUS opinion gives this nonsense more attention that warranted.