When Congress proposed the Equal Rights Amendment in March 1972, it included a seven-year ratification deadline, which everyone knew was valid and binding. In a 1977 report for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, then-Professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote that the ERA could become part of the Constitution only if ratification was “completed by 1979.”
When Congress proposed the Equal Rights Amendment in March 1972, it included a seven-year ratification deadline, which everyone knew was valid and binding.
The racist Israeli politician Itamar Ben Gvir could by the lynchpin for Netanyahu’s comeback. But the “New York Times” is keeping that news from its readers.