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December 12, 2024

Dozens of Democrats Join Activists in Demanding Biden Certify Equal Rights Amendment
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U.S. Capitol Police arrested several activists Tuesday as they blocked
Constitution Avenue as part of a protest demanding President Biden
publish the Equal Rights Amendment before leaving office. Dozens of
Democrats are also calling on Biden to quickly move to codify the ERA,
which has been approved by 38 states but was never ratified. Among them
is Congressmember Cori Bush, who spoke at a press conference on Tuesday,
the 101st anniversary of the ERA's introduction in Congress.

Rep. Cori Bush: "For months, President Biden and Democrats warned of the
threat posed by Donald Trump on our bodily autonomy and on our
democracy, a threat that is about to become reality very soon. President
Biden has the power to do something about this. He has the ERA. The ERA
is one sentence that has the power to protect our future: 'Equality of
rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United
States or by any State on account of sex.'"



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