The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday held a hearing, “The Equal Rights Amendment: How Congress Can Recognize Ratification and Enshrine Equality in Our Constitution.”
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday held a hearing, “The Equal Rights Amendment: How Congress Can Recognize Ratification and Enshrine Equality in Our Constitution.”
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Three protesters disrupted a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment. Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee captured the outbursts on his cellphone and posted the video on Twitter.
Wishful thinking is alive and well on Capitol Hill. Case in point: The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on February 28 titled “The Equal Rights Amendment: How Congress Can Recognize Ratification and Enshrine Equality in Our Constitution.” This hearing is intended to push the fiction that Congress has any authority to resurrect the ERA that it proposed in 1972, but that expired more than 40 years ago.