announced its support for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment with great fanfare. ERA advocates in the state had worked long and hard to widen their coalition and make it inclusive.
Many in the audience were shocked, thinking of the ERA only as a retro throwback — but politically it’s back with a vengeance.
Just last week presumptive Democratic nominee for president, Joe Biden, put the ERA front and center in his newly released Agenda for Women.
With this step, the amendment rises again to prominence on the national stage, and given the recent Supreme Court ruling banning discrimination against LGBTQIA people in Bostock v.