We applaud Congress for passing a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act to strengthen protections for women from domestic violence and sexual assault after it lapsed in 2019. As we’ve unfortunately seen too often in recent years, landmark legislative victories like the VAWA to protect women can be weakened, rolled back, or even repealed depending on the whims of who is in power.
The last few months in women’s rights
This March 8th, International Women’s Day, let’s talk about these last few months in women’s rights.
How Gen Z is taking up the mantle in the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment
I was born in 2005, around 80 years after the Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced. I was fourteen when Virginia, the 38th and final state, ratified the amendment. To this day, the ERA has yet to be enshrined in the United States Constitution.
ERA Coalition Statement In Response to Department of Justice Brief in Case Seeking to Force Publication of Equal Rights Amendment
On Friday evening, the Department of Justice filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in the case by the states of Illinois and Nevada seeking force U.S. Archivist David S. Ferriero to publish the Equal Rights Amendment as part of the Constitution. The brief asks the D.C. Circuit to affirm the dismissal of the case “without resolving the ERA’s legal status.”
A hope for the State of the Union address
It is our hope that Biden includes the ERA as the means to solving women’s inequality in tonight’s State of the Union Address. We hope that in Wednesday’s analysis of his speech, we will write about his use of the Equal Rights Amendment in women’s equality, rather than when he should have used it.
ERA Coalition Statement Ahead of President Biden’s State of the Union Address
As President Biden prepares his State of the Union address, we urge him to clearly and forcefully call on the Department of Justice to clear the way for the U.S. Archivist to publish the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. The ERA is now in effect across the country. This 28th Amendment must be recognized by inclusion in the document that dictates our rights.
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