Opening words of lawsuit filed by Attorneys General of Nevada, Illinois, and Virginia, declaring that the ERA must be put into the Constitution:
The United States Constitution now declares, once and for all, that equality of rights
under the law shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex. For nearly 150 years, our
Nation’s foundational document did not acknowledge the existence of women. In 1920, the
concept of equality among the sexes appeared in the Constitution for the first time, but was
limited to the right to vote. Now—after 231 years and on the centennial of the 19th
Amendment—the American people have committed to equality regardless of sex by adopting the
Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
On January 27, 2020, the Commonwealth of Virginia became the 38th State to ratify the
Equal Rights Amendment. At that moment, the process set forth in Article V of the U.S.
Constitution was complete. Plaintiff States Nevada, Illinois, and Virginia—the three States to
most recently ratify—ask this Court for an order: (1) directing the Archivist of the United States
to perform his purely ministerial duty under 1 U.S.C. § 106b to “cause the amendment to be
published, with his certificate, specifying . . . that the same has become valid, to all intents and
purposes, as a part of the Constitution of the United States,” and (2) declaring that the Equal
Rights Amendment has become the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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