The amendment was first proposed nearly 100 years ago, not long after passage of the 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote. The ERA, written by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman, came in ...

In a brief opinion last week in Valame v. Trump, a unanimous Ninth Circuit panel summarily “reject[ed] as meritless” a plaintiff’s “contention that the Equal Rights Amendment was ratified as the ...

Advocates of the ERA should take note of this evidence and should identify a different path for pursuing their constitutional goals. The National Archives is the wrong place to play with fire.

On the contrary, attempts to amend the Constitution have consistently generated difficult legal puzzles. Critics of the ERA insist that its compliance with Article V is “constitutionally suspect.” ...

The Constitution, properly interpreted, protects workers. But the Trump administration isn’t going to enforce those protections unless labor fights for them.

On the contrary, attempts to amend the Constitution have consistently generated difficult legal puzzles. Critics of the ERA insist that its compliance with Article V is “constitutionally suspect.” ...

While Biden's statement doesn't put the ERA into the Constitution, it does raise new legal questions in the ERA push, says Martha Davis, professor at Northeastern University School of Law.

On March 22, 1972, the U.S. Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment, sending the measure to the states for ratification in order for it to become a part of the U.S. Constitution, the ultimate law ...

But before it could be enshrined in the Constitution, the ERA needed three-quarters of all states, 38 total, to ratify it. Congress set a deadline for that goal.