#ERANow Case is at the First Circuit Court of Appeals: Brief filed & ERA Podcast Update

Since the US Supreme Court refused to accept Equal Means Equal’s (”EME”) case to force the U.S. Archivist to publish the ERA as the 28th Amendment, the case was sent back to the First Circuit Court of Appeals, in Boston. On December 3rd, 2020, Attorney Wendy Murphy filed the BRIEF for EME, et al., the Appellants, (read here) against the US Archivist, represented by Bill Barr’s Department of Justice. The reason why the ERA did not get published as the 28th Amendment after it was duly ratified on January 27, 2020 (when Virginia, the 38th and last required state, ratified it) was because Trump and Barr do not think that WOMEN DESERVE EQUAL RIGHTS UNDER LAW.

Women have literally been fighting for equal rights in this country since it's inception, over 244 years ago. On March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams wrote her husband, John Adams, a Founding Father and later our second President, after the Revolutionary War had begun. The future First Lady admonished her husband, who was shortly thereafter put on the drafting committee for the Declaration of Independence:

[I]n the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar (sic) care and attention is not paid to the Laidies (sic) we are determined to foment a Rebelion (sic), and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.

To listen to Wendy Murphy, Esq. and the formidable Kamala Lopez, the founder and President of EME, (and the Director of the ERA documentary, ”Equal Means Equal” now playing on Amazon Prime & elsewhere) update us on the fight for the ERA over the last year, click here for Episode 8 of EME’s podcast, ”Women’s Journal 2.0.”