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TexasTowelie

(117,236 posts)
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 03:41 AM Jan 2022

Virginia can't undo Equal Rights Amendment approval, outgoing AG says

Departing Attorney General Mark Herring says Virginia can’t undo its 2020 ratification of the federal Equal Rights Amendment, the stalled gender-equality measure that inspired a major activist push at the statehouse.

It’s unclear how eager Republicans might be to reverse the Virginia General Assembly’s vote, because the amendment still hasn’t been recognized at the federal level.

Women’s rights advocates had argued Virginia’s vote would be the final step needed to give the amendment approval from 38 states, but federal authorities concluded a 1979 deadline to ratify the measure was legally binding. That rendered Virginia’s action moot, at least for now.

Herring recently filed a new court brief seeking to overturn that outcome, but Republican victories in last year’s elections has created uncertainty over Virginia’s pro-ERA stance.

Read more: https://www.virginiamercury.com/blog-va/virginia-cant-undo-equal-rights-amendment-approval-outgoing-ag-says/

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Virginia can't undo Equal Rights Amendment approval, outgoing AG says (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2022 OP
No problem . . . AverageOldGuy Jan 2022 #1

AverageOldGuy

(2,140 posts)
1. No problem . . .
Sat Jan 8, 2022, 05:29 AM
Jan 2022

. . . the incoming AG is a hard-right novice nutball named Jason Miyares who is busy filling the AG office leadership with rightwingers like himself . . . he will reverse everything AG Herring has done.

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