Durbin Calls On His Colleagues To Support The Equal Rights Amendment – RiverBender (Alton)

He said, "Now, 38 states have ratified the Equal Rights Amendment in the past half century. The most recent [being] Virginia in 2020. Thirty-eight is the exact number needed to certify an Amendment to the Constitution. The only thing standing in the way of an Equal Rights Amendment is an arbitrary deadline that Congress included in the preamble… when the amendment passed in 1972.”