[Dilbert San Diego]

The ratification period for the ERA expired decades ago.

Also, a few states which originally ratified the amendment, rescinded their ratifications within the time period for ratification of the amendment.

Both of those issues will have to be hashed out in court, if the liberals choose to take this merely symbolic approval of the equal rights amendment to court.

[Publius]

The issue was hashed out in federal court in NOW v. Idaho, and the court rendered a decision: The ERA died in March 1979, and the three-year extension that Congress attempted was executed by the wrong process and thus was unconstitutional.

Neither the Circuit Court of Appeals nor the Supreme Court wished to hear appeals of the NOW ruling. What Virginia has done in ratifying is just virtue signaling.

[frank ballenger]

That’s what I thought. If the rescinded ratifications count then an after the closing bell “yes” goes into the waste basket, right?

But imagine the political courage for males to say in new votes in legislative bodies “no, I’m voting to end my career by not pushing women’s feminist rights. I’ll be able to spend more time with my family now that I will never be elected again in my lifetime.”