The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) already exists…right? You may think that, surely, gender equality across the board in America not only at the voting booth is already a ratified amendment of the ...

The Equal Rights Amendment is once again up for debate in the Senate next week, and Democrats and weak Republicans want you to believe that the only “debate” this time around is a procedural one.

In 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment, designed to guarantee protection against sexual discrimination for women under the law, passed both houses of Congress and was sent to the individual states for ...

The Equal Rights Amendment vote inside the Capitol has been postponed at least another legislative day. But that move came ...

Eventually, the amendment would be interpreted to apply most provisions in the Bill of Rights to the states as ... for the first time, promising “equal protection of the laws.” ...

A clause in the U.S. Constitution that says that no state shall “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” This “equal protection clause” has been used to challenge ...

Ironically, the very same amendment that was written to ensure equal rights for African Americans now provides a mechanism to make them second-class citizens. In many states, tens of thousands of ...

“The Equal Rights Amendment has absolutely nothing to do with abortion,” insisted Representative Carolyn Maloney (D., N.Y.) in an April 2019 Judiciary Committee hearing. Maloney has been the ...

Their argument is that an amendment that would allow the district—a nonstate—to have two senators would deprive the states of their equal suffrage in the Senate and would therefore require ...