Virginia became the 38th state to vote in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment, meeting the threshold necessary to make it part of the U.S. Constitution. However, the ERA could still face significant legal and legislative challenges. Julie Suk, a professor at …

Virginia has become the 38th state to approve the Equal Rights Amendment, which would officially prohibit discrimination based on sex. The measure was approved by Congress back in 1972, but in the 1980s, momentum stalled after just 35 states passed it, three …

Virginia has become the 38th and final state needed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but a long legal battle is expected. CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford spoke to CBSN about the significance of the vote.

Questions remain over whether Equal Rights Amendment will ever be added to the Constitution if ratified by 38 states.

But Republicans say the window for ratifying the amendment has closed.

Legislators in Virginia on Wednesday backed a long-gestating amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would guarantee equal rights for women, setting up a fight over whether the deadline to finalize it has passed.

Virginia became the pivotal 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, although the 1982 deadline has long passed to add it to the Constitution.

Both chambers of the Virginia state legislature passed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Wednesday, becoming the 38th state to pass the resolution.The amendment's passage in Virginia crosses the threshold necessary...

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“There’s been women who’ve been beaten, and who’ve marched and rallied and fought for their entire lives for this issue.”

Virginia's House of Delegates passed a resolution Wednesday in favor of ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment.

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If passed in Virginia, the Equal Rights Amendment would cross the 38-state threshold for ratification.

Virginia moved one step closer on Tuesday to ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment after a state House of Delegates committee advanced its resolution to the full chamber.

Eighty percent of Americans wrongly believe the US Constitution ensures that men and women have equal rights, according to one poll, but it doesn't -- and it's about time the US enshrines the Equal Rights Amendment in the supreme law of the land, Jody Heymann…

The act of the southern state, which had earlier convened a special session of the assembly and passed an unanimous resoultion seeking repeal of the amendment, was an intervention from within the purview of the Constitution, Vijayan said. Kerala is the first …

When Virginia opened its 2020 legislative session this week, the Equal Rights Amendment, a century-long dream of progressives and feminists that would ban discrimination on the basis of sex and guarantee equality for women under the Constitution, appeared clo…

The Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel is arguing that the deadline to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment has expired, a blow to supporters' push to enshrine the long-sought effort.

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The Trump administration on Wednesday poured cold water on a new effort to ratify a decades-old proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would ensure women have equal rights to men.

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Three conservative-leaning states have filed a federal lawsuit in an attempt to stop the Equal Rights Amendment from being added to the US Constitution as it nears potential ratification.

As tense protests about India’s new citizenship law rocked the nation’s capital last weekend, four women tried to form a human shield around their male classmate as police beat him with sticks. Shaheen Abdulla’s face was bloody as he yelled at his friends to …

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RT @bw71961: ~ NY Dems want to put Abortion on the Ballot and a group of NY and National Orgs are pushing a potential "ballot initiative" f…

Democrats to Use $20 Million Equal Rights Push to Aid 2024 N.Y. House Bids https://t.co/lwLRPFVrNi #PublishTheERA

RT @ERAillinois: Cheers to Vickie Samuelson of LWV Utah for writing to her paper about the Equal Rights Amendment. #ERAnow #PublishERA ht…

RT @bw71961: ~ NY Dems want to put Abortion on the Ballot and a group of NY and National Orgs are pushing a potential "ballot initiative" f…

RT @ERAMinnesota: Don’t miss it. This is a once-in-a-lifetime event! Next up: #ERA gets enacted! We’re done waiting. #AboutDamnTime #ERA1…

RT @csommerville1: How dare the @JoeBiden administration fight against the Equal Rights Amendment in court and then gaslight people about i…

RT @csommerville1: How dare the @JoeBiden administration fight against the Equal Rights Amendment in court and then gaslight people about i…

RT @csommerville1: How dare the @JoeBiden administration fight against the Equal Rights Amendment in court and then gaslight people about i…

How dare the @JoeBiden administration fight against the Equal Rights Amendment in court and then gaslight people about it by saying Congress needs to act. The EXECUTIVE has to publish the ERA. You’re not allies. #publishtheERA https://t.co/cHdcNapFqk https://t.co/eeNW79voUz

RT @ERACoalition: If the Equal Rights Amendment was redundant opponents of equality wouldn't be fighting so hard to prevent it from being p…

RT @bw71961: ~ NY Dems want to put Abortion on the Ballot and a group of NY and National Orgs are pushing a potential "ballot initiative" f…

Working Americans want a #GreenNewDeal transforming the US into a cheap & clean energy economy! Time to integrate reforestation w forest farming! We work for Universal Healthcare, an Equal Rights Amendment to our US Constitution & secure & fair federal right to vote by mail. https://t.co/qSrdIZ9AK1 https://t.co/hptYG6c3XY

If you don't like SCOTUS' #AffirmativeAction ruling, you have options. 1. Lobby to repeal the 14th Amendment, which affirms our right to equal protection under the law. 2. Lobby to repeal the law prohibiting racial discrimination in schools. AKA the Civil Rights Act. Oh wait.

Working Americans want a #GreenNewDeal transforming the US into a cheap & clean energy economy! Time to integrate reforestation w forest farming! We work for Universal Healthcare, an Equal Rights Amendment to our US Constitution & secure & fair federal right to vote by mail. https://t.co/MtnzXkQq8E

You need to pressure the president to publish the Equal rights amendment https://t.co/IIsq0sYp0D

Working Americans want a #GreenNewDeal transforming the US into a cheap & clean energy economy! Time to integrate reforestation w forest farming! We work for Universal Healthcare, an Equal Rights Amendment to our US Constitution & secure & fair federal right to vote by mail. https://t.co/UxewF2Ko1w

RT @bw71961: ~ NY Dems want to put Abortion on the Ballot and a group of NY and National Orgs are pushing a potential "ballot initiative" f…

From 1982 on the Equal Rights Amendment https://t.co/tX4ELk3NeD

Alice Paul should be on our money. I found this in a precious box of memories… apparently I was concerned about The Equal Rights Amendment when I was twelve. I have no recollection of my concern. I have evidence, however https://t.co/bnqh2zO5ap

In order for family planning to be equitable for all, women need to enjoy equal protection under the law, and until that happens- until the equal rights amendment is published- you are simply making it easier to buy and sell reproductive elements- commodifying women, essentially. https://t.co/uB6cFUo1w1

RT @PatriceLenowitz: BREAKING: The #ERA will SAVE reproductive rights AND eliminate Women’s 2nd class status under the law WHEN it is certi…

RT @ReutersLegal: Civil rights attorney Sherrilyn Ifill is joining the faculty of Howard University School of Law. Ifill will launch a new…

RT @CABlueBlaze: Today we somberly note the year anniversary of the #Dobbs Decision & reaffirm the need for the Equal Rights Amendment. It’…

Cheers to Ellen Brady of Utah for writing to her paper about the Equal Rights Amendment. Be like Ellen! #ERAnow https://t.co/0rK8RlFXgG

RT @Alyssa_Milano: @GavinNewsom I agree that we need to do everything we can to stop gun violence but, man—the 28th amendment is the Equal…

RT @thefeministfrnt: "Black and queer women spearheaded the Equal Rights Amendment’s most critical period of revitalization, and the ERA is…

RT @thefeministfrnt: "The ERA seeks to reinforce & modernize the fundamental principal of equality that lies at the heart of the US Constit…

RT @GramG46133627: #Republicans are still coming for women! No-fault divorces are the law of the land giving women the same rights as men.…

RT @GramG46133627: #Republicans are still coming for women! No-fault divorces are the law of the land giving women the same rights as men.…

RT @thefeministfrnt: "The NY State Constitution fails to prohibit discrimination against groups who have been historically targeted includi…

RT @GramG46133627: #Republicans are still coming for women! No-fault divorces are the law of the land giving women the same rights as men.…

RT @GramG46133627: #Republicans are still coming for women! No-fault divorces are the law of the land giving women the same rights as men.…

RT @ivbaoshi: Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1, was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that…

RT @HeavenScent88: Marjorie Taylor Greene: Hunter Biden Wrote Off 'Sex Trafficking' As A Business Expense. "This is a clear violation of…

RT @GramG46133627: #Republicans are still coming for women! No-fault divorces are the law of the land giving women the same rights as men.…

In his order, Moody ruled that the prohibition violated the due process and equal protection rights of transgender youth and families. He said the law also violated the First Amendment rights of medical providers. https://t.co/TeOhBP8XNQ

RT @girlsreallyrule: A federal district court judge has struck down an Arkansas law banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth, fi…

RT @girlsreallyrule: A federal district court judge has struck down an Arkansas law banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth, fi…

RT @Desert_yoSemite: @Mike_Pence Equal rights to freedom of religion. First amendment. https://t.co/he4SZLgpJj

RT @girlsreallyrule: A federal district court judge has struck down an Arkansas law banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth, fi…