The ERA has been neglected in committee in our General assembly, and so it falls to localities like ours to pressure our Virginia senators and delegates to make it a priority. A prevailing argument against ERA ratification is that it's not necessary. But let me quote former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. He said, certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. It simply doesn't forbid it. (00:22–00:28)
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Asserts that a common argument against the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment is its perceived lack of necessity.
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