Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand issued the following statement regarding the American Bar Association’s support of implementing the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution in accordance with Article V of the Constitution:
“The American Bar Association is the premier association of legal minds in the United States, and their endorsement of the Equal Rights Amendment as having met the Article V threshold is incredibly important. It shows that constitutional law experts believe the ERA has satisfied all the constitutional requirements to be certified and published. Such a step would enshrine freedom and equality for American women and girls into the Constitution and be the most effective rebuttal available to the disastrous Dobbs decision.”
In 2023, Senator Gillibrand introduced the ERA Now resolution, which directs the archivist of the United States, Colleen Shogan, to affirm the ERA as the 28th Amendment of the United States Constitution, certify the state ratifications, and publish it in the Federal Register. The resolution determines that the ERA has met all the requirements of Article V of the Constitution: passage by more than two-thirds of Congress in 1972 and ratification by three-quarters of the states.