Three Attorneys General filed a landmark civil rights lawsuit today to ensure that the ERA is added to the Constitution. Learn more:
In their complaint, the attorneys general argue that as soon as three-fourths of states ratify an amendment, it becomes law and should be added to the Constitution immediately. They also declare that “the U.S. Archivist does not have any discretionary authority over which amendments are added to the Constitution and which are not, and must therefore certify the amendment as part of the Constitution.
That assertion addresses a key fight ahead for ERA ratification. Attorneys General from Alabama, Louisiana and South Dakotaalleging that the arbitrary timeline in the preamble to the ERA—which was not voted on by any state, has been altered previously by Congress and is the subject of bipartisan legislation in the House and Senate proposing its removal—should render recent ratification votes in three states moot.
Herring disagrees, and he plans to fight on for ERA ratification without delay. “We now have this historic opportunity to ensure that equal rights regardless of sex are properly recognized as part of the Constitution,” he said in a statement released Thursday. “Virginians have made it clear that it is their will that the ERA be ratified and I now have the great honor of continuing that fight to make sure that gender equality is enshrined in the U.S.
Ford made a similar pledge in his remarks. “Women have always been endowed with equal rights, even though our country has wrongly failed to recognize them,” he said. “These rights are entitled to their rightful place in the Constitution, and I am committed to ensuring they are permanently written into our nation’s history and its future.”
Raoul made the political personal again in his remarks, opening up about why the ERA matters to him—not just as an attorney general, but also as the father to a young daughter.
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