The “Grim Reaper of Democracy,” Mitch McConnell, and his obstructionist gang of GQP seditious senators filibustered the Paycheck Fairness Act in the Senate on Tuesday. Senate GOP blocks bill to combat gender pay gap: Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked legislation aimed at addressing pay inequality, marking their second successful use of the filibuster under President … Read more
Supreme Court reporter Mark Joseph Stern reports that Project Blitz: The Christian Nationalist Attack on America today has finally achieved its long-desired goal of getting a test case before the U.S. Supreme Court which directly challenges Roe v. Wade (1973). A Supreme Court stacked by Republicans with conservative activist judges favorable to this anti-abortion position, all … Read more
The Hill reports, House removes deadline for ratifying ERA: The House on Wednesday adopted H.J.Res 17, a resolution to remove the deadline for ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to formally ban discrimination on the basis of sex as one of Democrats’ top legislative priorities. Lawmakers passed the resolution largely along party lines, 222-204, to … Read more
When the 117th U. S. Congress convened, on January 21, 2021 bills with bipartisan support were introduced to remove the time limit placed upon the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972. In the U.S. Senate, Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) introduced S.J. Res 1, and in the House of Representatives, Rep. Jackie Speier … Read more
Above: First Ladies Rosalynn Carter and Betty Ford campaigning together at a 1984 ERA rally at the Lincoln Memorial. The Huffington Post reports, 2021 Could Be The Year Women Get Full Constitutional Rights: With Donald Trump out of the White House and Sen. Mitch McConnell no longer controlling the Senate, two substantial roadblocks for the … Read more