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Amendments by Acclamation: Democrats Move to Simply Declare the Equal Rights Amendment as Ratified

JonathanTurley

In 1981, a federal district court ruled in Idaho v. The Supreme Court later stayed that order but then declared the matter moot.). Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) — are pushing to lift the deadline for a third time. Yet, they still fell short.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”. Four years later, her case reached the Supreme Court. In a 6-3 opinion by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court ruled in Olmstead v. Federal Election Commission , and he represented an Alaska school board in Morse v. Walter Dellinger (May 15, 1941 – Feb.

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