The Equal Rights Amendment was ratified four years ago, after five decades of effort to get 38 states to sign on.
However, it is not yet the 28th amendment to our Constitution because Joe Biden has refused to order the United States Archivist to publish it in the Federal Register, which would give it the force of law.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared, "The constitution provides a process for its amendment. Those conditions have been fulfilled. … The amendment has the support of the majority of the American people, and my support as well if elected."
Although President Biden claims to support the ERA, he continued in Trump's footsteps by sending DOJ attorneys to oppose ERA advocates in federal court.
Women's rights activists such as Kamala Lopez, president of Equal Means Equal, points out that Biden "needs to publish right away or he will jeopardize his ability to win the election. ... The fact that [Biden] is not doing it really means that we need to withhold our vote from this president until he agrees."
Candidates Cornel West, Marianne Williamson and Jill Stein have also promised to publish the amendment. However, Kennedy is the only third-party candidate who polls high enough to be in the CNN Presidential Candidate Debate, and those polls show he could pull votes from both parties and win in November.
In Congress, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) are gathering co-sponsors for a joint resolution urging the Archivist to publish.
Suffragettes got women the right to vote in 1920, according to a Southern congressman, because they were "annoying and persistent and troublesome … just like the sand that gets into your eyes when the wind blows."
Today's ERA activists intend to be just as unstoppable, and they urge women to vote for RFK Jr. on November 5th since voting for Joe Biden didn't get it done.
By Lauren Ayers, Guinda
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