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To: stars & stripes forever

They just passed an ERA, and it cannot be ratified decades later?


202 posted on 01/18/2020 10:53:22 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: wastedyears

[They just passed an ERA, and it cannot be ratified decades later?]

The time limit to ratify ERA has legally come and gone.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/equal-rights-amendment-vote-set-virginia-state-legislature/story?id=68268838


238 posted on 01/18/2020 12:14:21 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm ( 32:12))
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To: wastedyears
They just passed an ERA, and it cannot be ratified decades later?

In practice there has been an effective time limit on ratifying Constitutional Amendments; IIRC the ERA had an explicit time limit baked in when it started, which is long past.

253 posted on 01/18/2020 12:32:52 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: wastedyears

“They just passed an ERA, and it cannot be ratified decades later?”

Bread and circuses. For imbeciles.


500 posted on 01/19/2020 8:10:38 AM PST by Darnright (We live in interesting times.)
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