Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced on Tuesday that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed Alabama’s win in defending against a lawsuit that sought to compel the U.S. Archivist to certify the long-expired Equal Rights Amendment as part of the U.S. Constitution.
“Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit agreed with our argument that Nevada and Illinois cannot purport to ratify a proposed amendment that expired decades ago and then force the Archivist to sneak the Equal Rights Amendment into the Constitution,” said AG Marshall. “This is a significant victory for the rule of law.”
In 1972, Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment; but it still had to be ratified by the states. The seven-year ratification deadline came and went, with the amendment failing to get ratified by the 38 states needed for it to become part of the Constitution. In 2018, Nevada purported to become…
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