ERA in the News: NOVEMBER 22, 2025 - DECEMBER 5, 2025

NATIONAL

Nov. 27 The Perils and Promise of an Article V Convention "The Equal Rights Amendment—a guarantee of equal legal rights regardless of sex—was proposed in 1923 but did not pass in Congress until 1972. In 2020, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the ERA. However, the ERA would not become law due to the fact that Congress had imposed a ratification deadline of 1982, and so the National Archives declined to publish it.  Whether Congress’ imposition of a ratification deadline is itself “Constitutional” is an as-yet-unanswered legal question." Daily Kos

Dec. 2 A Tribute to the Late Congresswoman Shirley A. Chisholm "On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. presents an encore presentation of a conversation he had with the late Shirley A. Chisholm." KUT News

STATE NEWS

NEW YORK

Dec. 1 Challenge to Mandatory Retirement Age for New York Judges Rejected JDSUPRA