In the United States, senate majority leader says senate will vote on removing deadline to ratify equal rights amendment

The Senate will vote this week on a measure that would seek to remove a barrier to enshrining the Equal Rights Amendment in the U.S. Constitution, more than a half-century after Congress overwhelmingly passed the proposed amendment, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY., said [on 24 April]. [...] The Equal Rights Amendment was written by the suffragist Alice Paul and introduced in Congress in 1923. Congress passed the amendment in 1972, starting the clock on a seven-year deadline for states to ratify the proposed amendment. Congress later extended the deadline to 1982, but the deadline came and went without enough states ratifying the amendment. In 2020, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the amendment, meeting the three-fourths majority necessary for a constitutional amendment. But a federal judge later ruled that the move came too late to make the amendment part of the Constitution. [...] In 2021, the House narrowly passed a resolution to remove the 1982 deadline, with only four Republicans voting for the measure. At the time, Cardin's and Murkowski's companion resolution was stalled after introduction in the evenly divided Senate.
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