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Backers herald "historic" legislative votes, await House action on proposed constitutional amendment.

House Bill 950 is a threat to democracy and the individual rights of government workers.

Kate Shaw, a law professor at Yeshiva University, and Julie C. Suk, a law professor at Fordham University, published an op-ed in the New York Times on Tuesday that argues that the Constitution should be amended by passing the Equal...

“Black women should be leading and centered in this movement,” Ayanna Pressley said of the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment.

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would invalidate many state and federal laws that discriminate against women; its central underlying principle is that sex should not determine the legal rights of men or women. The text of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) states that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex” and further that “the Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.” The ERA was first introduced...