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@HouseDemocrats @SenateDems @ewarren @BernieSanders @amyklobuchar Rather than RELIGIOUS argument re: abortion—we need a BUDGET argument. FORCING WOMEN to bear children INCREASES POOR PEOPLE and leads to GREATER TAXES on STATE Taxpayer. @MSNBC @washingtonpost @CNNPolitics
How? Absent fathers & women UNABLE to feed/clothe/care for babies = KIDS IN FOSTER CARE, or KIDS living at below poverty level. MEDICAID, Housing, Food subsidies REQUIRED. States OPTING to increase population in foster care: MUST SHOULDER THE EXPENSE: WITHOUT FEDERAL ASSISTANCE.
Example: Texas. 50K abortions in 2021. Now banned. WHAT is the 2023 budget for their HOUSING/MEDICAID/FOOD? Foster care? Adjust number for adopted (5K) = 45K
30K ALREADY in foster care = 75K in care. By 2nd year? 120K. By 3rd year? 165K. Welcome to the FEARED welfare State.
30K ALREADY in foster care = 75K in care. By 2nd year? 120K. By 3rd year? 165K. Welcome to the FEARED welfare State.
Dobbs is a violation of 14th Amendment: right to LIFE (pregnancy/childbirth INHERENTLY risky), LIBERTY (can’t leave infant ALONE), PROPERTY (Child over home). UNEQUAL: men NOT similarly handicapped by STATE.
14th Amendment was AMENDED ITSELF—twice. Section 2 gave WHITE MALES right to vote. Required passing 15th Amendment (oops, meant BLACK MALES, too). And 50 YEARS later (ooops, meant FEMALEs, too). Section 1 NOW NEEDS AMENDMENT. Person/Citizen MEANS women, too.
The Equal Rights Amendment IS that correction to the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. Just as the 19th Amendment was necessary to give women the vote, so is the ERA to give women the EQUAL protection of the LAW. That NO State CAN DENY a woman to LIFE, LIBERTY & Property.
"The Equal Rights Amendment 2021" is a great show. There is a lot happening-- Congress, Executive Branch, federal courts, state legislatures, the media. But where is all this going? Much of what you now see is political theater. To understand this better, we must go back...
ERAs have proposed in Congress since 1923. But for many decades, they were unable to surmount the high hurdles found in Article V of the Constitution. Article V succinctly spells out how the Constitution may be amended. To protect the text of the Constitution,
the Framers required extraordinarily levels of political consensus to amend. Two methods were provided, but only one has been employed-- Congress, by 2/3 votes, proposes an amendment, but it only becomes part of the Constitution if 3/4 of state legislatures (now, 38) ratify it.
ERA MEDIA WATCH: @USATODAY piece by @mgroppe, "Biden Taking Hands-Off Approach to DOJ Barrier on ERA." Quotes unnamed Administration official saying Biden won't tell DOJ whether to rescind the Jan. 2020 OLC opinion that said the ERA had expired.
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The Administration official, responding on the condition of anonymity, said Biden remains committed to the ERA, but respects the independence of the Justice Department. An upcoming vote in the U.S. House of Representatives is "the appropriate next step," the official said.
The House will vote March 17 on a resolution (H.J.Res. 17) that purports to retroactively remove the 1979 ERA deadline; quotes Douglas D. Johnson, director of NRLC's ERA Project, as saying Congress is powerless to time travel back to 1972 to resuscitate a long-dead amendment.
New #Womenshistorymonth thread. Was the #NineteenthAmendment only about women’s right to #vote?
#suffrage #whm2021 #whm #womenshistorymonth2021 #feminism (1/15)
#suffrage #whm2021 #whm #womenshistorymonth2021 #feminism (1/15)
That is precisely the question that politicians, activists, and legal authorities fought over in the years following the #NineteenthAmendment ‘s ratification. #whm2021 #suffrage #rights (2/15)
ABORTION AND THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT:
A THREAD
With the U.S. House of Representatives slated to vote on an ERA "deadline removal" measure (H.J.Res. 17) the week of March 15, 2021, it is timely to review one of the main reasons the level of support for
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A THREAD
With the U.S. House of Representatives slated to vote on an ERA "deadline removal" measure (H.J.Res. 17) the week of March 15, 2021, it is timely to review one of the main reasons the level of support for
#equalrightsamendment
the language of the 1972 ERA has dropped so precipitously in the "People's House"--the house that is apportioned on the basis of population, and in which every member stands for election every 2 years. In 1971, 94% of House members voted for the ERA Resolution (H.J.Res. 208).
But when the House Democratic majority leadership attempted a "start-over" ERA (same language) in 1983, it failed on the House floor (11-15-83), drawing 65% support, short of 2/3 needed (14 cosponsors nay). Single biggest reason: the ERA-abortion link had become evident to many.
Step right up! See the wondrous transformation of the ERA resolution (H.J.Res.17)! Introduced Jan. 21 under Congress's Article V powers, properly crafted by congressional attorneys to require 2/3 vote in each house. But now, in dead of night, in the blink of an eye-- transformed!
Here you see the original H.J. Res. 17, as introduced with trumpets Jan. 21, 2021. We invite you to carefully examine the "Resolved" clause-- drafted by congressional staff specialists, initiates in their arcane craft, to properly reflect the Article V requirement for 2/3 votes.
Now, do not blink... shazam! H.J. Res. 17, transformed! The number, the date, they've not changed--and yet, the pesky constitutional 2/3 requirement is no more! Only the tiny star, barely noticeable, conveying meaning only to initiates, reveals the visit of the stealthy magician!
In new CNN piece @VeronicaStrac, sharply contrasting assessments of the 3-5-21 ERA deadline ruling by Judge Rudolph Contreras. CNN says the judge "dealt a blow to advocates of the ERA" by upholding the deadline and rejecting late actions by VA, IL, and NV.
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Douglas Johnson of National Right to Life said Democrats in Congress & state AGs are on "a political-pressure campaign to intimidate the federal courts into permitting them to air-drop the long-expired ERA into the Constitution, [but] a federal judge appointed by President Obama
ignored the political pressures and unflinchingly enforced the Constitution." But Katherine Franke of the ERA Project at Columbia Law School said, "Yesterday's ruling is not really a setback for sex equality or the ERA, rather it renews our focus on the bill
U.S. House Maj. Leader Hoyer announced the House will take up the ERA "deadline removal" resolution the week of March 15. But, the script for this exercise in political theater contains so many absurdities, some players keep forgetting their lines. We noticed another blunder...
House rules require that for every bill, the sponsor must submit a statement citing the constitutional authority for the measure. For the House ERA "deadline removal" resolution, H.J. Res. 17, the cited authority is Article V, the article that governs amending the Constitution.
The "problem": Article V always requires a 2/3 vote (although not the president's signature). But the Democratic majority leadership barely has the votes to pass this political prop by a simple majority. So, they've simply asserted that they can
51, 60, 67?
Later this month, Senate Democrats plan to complain about an anticipated Republican filibuster of S.J. Res. 1, which purports to "remove" the ERA deadline. 60 votes, awful! Yet, the lawyers at Legislative Counsel drafted it to require 2/3 (67, if all senators vote)!
Later this month, Senate Democrats plan to complain about an anticipated Republican filibuster of S.J. Res. 1, which purports to "remove" the ERA deadline. 60 votes, awful! Yet, the lawyers at Legislative Counsel drafted it to require 2/3 (67, if all senators vote)!
How could such an "error" occur? Well, it's not really an error--it was drafting by the book. After all, the resolutions purport to be based on Article V, and Article V always requires 2/3 votes. But the ERA-revival scheme requires the pretense that Congress can
retroactively amend the 1972 ERA resolution, which required 2/3 votes, by simple majority votes. Apparently, somebody forgot to order the professional drafting attorneys to conform to this political fiction! To "fix," Senate Democrats will employ a rare "stealth edit" trick,
1/16) BREAKING NEWS: A major development in the main ERA ratification case, VIRGINIA v. FERRIERO, filed in Washington, D.C. Federal District Judge Rudolph Contreras (Obama appointee) has GRANTED the motion of Alabama (+LA,NE,SD,TN) to intervene in the case --
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#ERANow
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2/16) i.e, become parties themselves. This is the case in which Virginia, Illinois, and Nevada sued the Archivist, arguing that the 1972 ERA has already been ratified, and that the ratification deadline imposed by Congress was unconstitutional.
#ERA2020
#ERAYes
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3/16) The judge's order, entered over opposition from VA, IL, NV, is a big win for ERA skeptics. It substantially increases the likelihood that major legal issues surrounding the viability of the 1972 ERA (e.g., whether the 1972 ERA in fact died decades ago,
Congressman John Lewis once said “Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic.”
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If you’re like me, you could use a few reasons to keep your head up.
Here are 50 reasons to stay hopeful from the past 3+ years.
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If you’re like me, you could use a few reasons to keep your head up.
Here are 50 reasons to stay hopeful from the past 3+ years.
50. On Jan. 28, 2017, thousands showed up to airports in support of Muslim families impacted by Trump’s unconstitutional #MuslimBan.
That night, a federal judge in NY issued a stay allowing people stranded in airports to temporarily avoid deportation.
📷: Stephanie Keith/Getty
That night, a federal judge in NY issued a stay allowing people stranded in airports to temporarily avoid deportation.
📷: Stephanie Keith/Getty
49. Much to the dismay of Donald Trump, #Parasite won Best Picture at the Oscars, making it the first non-English language film to win in the 92 years of the Academy Awards.
📷: Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images
📷: Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images
Aiming to include an explicit bar against sex discrimination in the U.S. Constitution, the House will vote today on whether to nix the deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
My report ahead of today's vote
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The House will begin debate on the vote to remove the deadline on the Equal Rights Amendment shortly, inching it ever closer to perhaps, one day, becoming the 28th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Story to come for @CourthouseNews
Story to come for @CourthouseNews
@CourthouseNews BREAKING: The final vote tally is coming up but the majority of votes needed to pass the resolution removing the deadline for ratification of the #EqualRightsAmendment has been reached.
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This Thursday, I will have coverage of the vote to remove the deadline to ratify the #EqualRightsAmendment.
Stay tuned.
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Stay tuned.
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@CourthouseNews Today at 11:30AM ET, @SpeakerPelosi and @RepSpeier - who spearheaded the bill to remove the ERA state ratification deadline - will deliver remarks along with members of the Women's Caucus et al in anticipation of Thursday's vote.
Bill here: documentcloud.org/documents/6774…
Bill here: documentcloud.org/documents/6774…
@CourthouseNews @SpeakerPelosi @RepSpeier Full story to come, but Pelosi is now speaking: Millions of women have raised the drumbeat for ratification and reignited the movement to pass the ERA. (See @CarolJenkins for one), she says.
Midterm elections were a year ago today.
While I dreamed of Arizona being the 38th state to #RatifyERA, Virginia is poised to become the final state.
The difference? A democratic majority in the state legislature.
(THREAD 1/15)
While I dreamed of Arizona being the 38th state to #RatifyERA, Virginia is poised to become the final state.
The difference? A democratic majority in the state legislature.
(THREAD 1/15)
In 2017, we thought that with the addition of Rep. @DrGerae, there would be a possibility for the #ERA to at least get a committee hearing since Arizona was FIRST in the country in female representation in the legislature at the time. /2
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Gov. @dougducey spent a significant portion of the SOS highlighting the accomplishments of AZ female trailblazers, but notably left out the #EqualRightsAmendment.
To do so felt like an attempt to gloss over the rampant sexual harassment at #azleg. /3
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To do so felt like an attempt to gloss over the rampant sexual harassment at #azleg. /3
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