2023-04-28 05:22:01
The Senate of USA rejection this Thursday a resolution that would have allowed vote to introduce the Equal Rights Amendment, which prohibits discrimination based on gender, in the Constitution. The amendment, which was proposed in 1923, has since been ratified by 38 states, the number needed to be incorporated into Magna Carta. But some territories ratified it after the expiration of the term that Congress ruled, according to CNN.
The resolution rejected today would have invalidated that term for the amendment to be considered ratified, allowing its vote by both chambers and the president’s signature, steps that are necessary for it to be adopted. The project, despite having the support of two Republican senators, failed by 51 votes compared to 47 in the Upper House, where the Democrats have a very close majority of 51 votes and most initiatives need at least 60 to overcome the filibustering rule. .
The leader of the progressives in the chamber, Chuck Schumer, lamented the result in a press conference after the vote, although he warned: “We are going to win this battle.” The Democrat opined that in 2023 women are being “attacked, politically, in many ways,” such as with the abortion restrictions passed in several states following the removal last summer of the constitutional right to proceed by the Supreme Court.
The White House asked the Senate to pass the resolution, arguing that “it is time to include the principle of gender freedom definitively in the Constitution,” according to CNN. Most Republicans argue, however, that equality between men and women is already protected by the 14th Amendment, which states that the laws equally protect all US citizens.
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