Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a longtime supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment, suggested that the deadline to ratify the measure as a constitutional amendment has expired and that the decades-long effort must start anew
"I would like to see a new beginning," Ginsburg told an audience at Georgetown University Law Center. "I'd like it to start over," she added.Ginsburg was responding to a question from the moderator of the event, Judge M. Margaret McKeown of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, who asked whether there would ever be an Equal Rights Amendment on the federal level.The ERA would ban discrimination on the basis of sex and guarantee equality for women under the Constitution.
Her comments on the Equal Rights Amendment bolster arguments made last month by the Department of Justice in a legal opinion. Steven Engel, the assistant attorney general of the Office of Legal Counsel, wrote in response to an ongoing lawsuit that his office had concluded that"Congress had the constitutional authority to impose a deadline on the ratification of the ERA and, because that deadline has expired, the ERA Resolution is no longer pending before the States.
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