Amendments by Acclamation: Democrats Move to Simply Declare the Equal Rights Amendment as Ratified
JonathanTurley
MARCH 11, 2022
But it fell short of that constitutional threshold. Not only that, but four states — Nebraska, Tennessee, Idaho, Kentucky — rescinded their prior ratifications; a fifth, South Dakota, set its ratification to expire if the ERA was not adopted by the 1979 deadline. In 1981, a federal district court ruled in Idaho v.
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