We've made history! #VAratifyERA

[PunkinPi]

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We’ve made history! #VAratifyERA

Vote 59-41 to Ratify ERA

[Duppers]

1. Oh my goodness! YES!! 😀

So happy!! I hadn't heard!! Not checked local news.

This is great!!

Oh, Pi, thank you for posting this.

[PunkinPi]

4. Happened to be scrolling through Twitter and BOOM!

You're welcome and thank goodness VA has gone blue!

[Duppers]

5. I'm so proud of our state!

And you...you rock, gurl.

[PunkinPi]

6. Me too, Duppers!

Aww, you're the best!

[riversedge]

2. OMG! VIRGINIA DID IT

[Newest Reality]

3. Wow!

Now that's some great news for a change!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Celebrate that one. Marvelous.

[CaptYossarian]

7. American exceptionalism. Trying to pass this began in 1973.

Phyllis Schlafly spinning in her grave should be able to provide power to three states.

[CousinIT]

8. 'Pro-life' ninny disagrees

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Not really. ERA is not ratified as the time limit expired in 1982 and 5 states have rescinded. Your lack of facts here is stunning.

Dunno if she is correct or not about the timing and the 5 states, but she's an pro-forced-birther/pro-forced-pregnancy person. WTH is the matter w/ these brainwashed RWNJ women?

[PunkinPi]

10. It looks like it will be headed to the courts...

ERA advocates say hitting the 38 mark means the amendment will have surpassed the three-quarters of states the amendment needs to be added to the Constitution.

Opponents disagree. Court battles are expected to unfold over a long-passed 1982 ratification deadline set by Congress as well as moves by five states that ratified it in the 1970s to rescind their support.

Still, the votes in the House and Senate carried enormous symbolic weight and showed how much once solidly conservative Virginia has changed.

Advocates, opponents and legal experts largely agree that with the 38th state’s ratification, lawsuits are likely to unfold. At least two have already been filed.

Last week, the Justice Department issued an opinion concluding that because the deadline has expired, the ERA is no longer legally pending before the states.

The National Archives and Records Administration, which has a ministerial role in certifying the ratification of constitutional amendments, said in a statement that it would abide by that legal opinion “unless otherwise directed by a final court order.”

Congressional Democrats are also working to pass a bill removing the deadline.

https://wtop.com/virginia/2020/01/virginia-poised-for-historic-vote-on-equal-rights-amendment/

But today, I'll take the win!

[CousinIT]

11. OK. So another 30 years while the American Taliban continues to fight

it in the courts.

Nice symbolic event though.

[Karadeniz]

9. Thank you Virginia!!!❤❤❤

[Mersky]

12. YES! GOOD! FINALLY!!!!!!!