For Immediate Release: February 3, 2023
Contact: Ryan Hite, Communications Director
Washington, D.C: “When it comes to the failed Equal Rights Amendment, it’s hard to tell if we’re watching Congress or a zombie film — because the left just won’t let some some failed ideas die!” said Ed Martin, president of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles. “Squad member Rep. Ayanna Pressley (with dozens of cosponsors) has filed H.J. Res 25, which would remove the original ratification deadline of the 1972 ERA and declare the amendment ratified!”
Martin continued, “This preposterous proposition is a sham from the beginning, and you don’t have to trust only me. I am simply agreeing with the federal judiciary, the Department of Justice, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and essentially all of the serious legal community in echoing the legal fact that ERA is absolutely, definitely defunct.
“Congress cannot simply change a ratification process because they don’t like the result from the states, nor can states try to take action decades after ratification deadlines have passed. What’s more, this opinion is obviously bi-partisan in nature. Even Deputy Asst. Attorney General Sarah Harrington (under the Biden DOJ) clarified last fall before the D.C. Circuit that Article V of the Constitution doesn’t allow Congress to ‘engage in a bait-and-switch.’ Congress passed it and the states rejected it. They have to start all over again if they want, but as even Justice Ginsburg pointed out, most of the ‘equality’ goals have been codified into U.S. law.
“This is purely a push to solidify sex-based bias into the Constitution. This dangerous legal ground was rejected many times in Congress and finally by a strong majority of the states. Time for the left to leave it alone and not dig up the bones of the proverbial horse to beat yet again. The dangerous Equal Rights Amendment is dead and gone, swept to the ash heap of history where it belongs!”
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