The Trump Amendment

I am currently writing an article nigh the ongoing endeavor to revive the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. Last year, Nevada ratified the ERA. Nevada's declaration was that although the ratification deadline imposed yesteryear Congress for the ERA expired inwards 1982, Congress tin waive that requirement together with declare the amendment operate of the Constitution if together with when 3/4ths of the states ratify. My tentative decision is that this declaration is correct, though the fact that about states rescinded their ratifications inwards the 1970s complicates the enquiry of how nosotros volition know when three-fourths of the states convey ratified.

Initially, I wondered whether I should write a police describe review article on this, every bit the enquiry tin last seen every bit hypothetical. Yesterday, however, the Illinois Senate voted to ratify the ERA. Resolutions to create the same are right away pending inwards the Illinois House together with inwards other position down legislatures. As a result, I'm working away on the draft amongst all deliberate speed.

It is difficult to avoid the idea that the revived involvement inwards the ERA is, inwards part, a backlash against the actions of our electrical flow President, right away supplemented yesteryear the #MeToo movement. The ERA every bit operate of the Constitution would last an ironic trial of the Trump Presidency, to tell the least.

UPDATE (April 20): The New York Times has an editorial inwards today's edition on the ERA entitled "A Rebuke to Trump, H5N1 Century inwards the Making." Perhaps they were inspired yesteryear my post.