We have the equal protection clause and we have the 19th Amendment. I'm hard-pressed to conjure up an activity that a man can do by law that a woman cannot, from a Constitutional standpoint.

#26 | Posted by BellRinger

Why was the 19A needed since we already had 14A with the equal protection clause?

We recently saw the GOP and their packed Court strip women of their right to life saving health care.

What if the GOP is successful in their expressed desire to revise or repeal the 14th?

Plus I'm just talking about women but the ERA would include protections for men. One such example is that it is unlikely that men would still be forced to register for the draft unless women have to also.

Ultimately it doesn't matter because justice is dead in America. What the Constitution says is irrelevant. If it's text was still relevant then Trump would not eligible to hold office after he engaged in insurrection.

Dinger just doesn't want women to have equal rights. Odd, since he's in their camp with keeping trans people out of their sports.
#20 | Posted by REDIAL

I don't know how he feels about the ERA and I'm not saying that the court system wouldn't honor the 7 year limit or states rescinding ratification. I'm just pointing out that those powers are not granted by the Constitution. That said, neither is Presidential immunity but that didn't stop the Supreme Court for pulling that out of their collective ass.

5 states rescinded their initial ratification before the deadline
#18 | Posted by BellRinger

Article V only gives states the authority to ratify an amendment. It does not grant them authority to rescind such action.

It's in the text of the Amendment, making it part of the Amendment itself.
#12 | Posted by BellRinger

Wrong. The seven year statement is in the Congressional resolution proposing the amendment, not the actual amendment text.
The the text of the amendment is as follows.

"SECTION 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
"SEC. 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
"SEC. 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification."

There is a 100% chance that this is a scam.

I'll add that it took 42 years to ratify the 19th amendment. If it took that long for the states to resolve an issue such as women's suffrage then why should congress be able to place restrictions on how long states should be able to debate matters of such importance that they require a Constitutional change to settle?

In order to become an Amendment it would have to have been ratified within 7 years. That clearly didn't happen.
#3 | Posted by BellRinger

The Constiution says nothing about a seven year limit. That is something that Congress made up and whether or not they have the right to limit the power of the states in such a way should be litigated by the courts.

Good. I try to avoid supporting China as much as possible. I support a ban on all Chinese based apps. The country engages in child and forced labor and fails to take even minimal efforts to fight sex trafficking.

Trump voters keep hoping that Trump won't actually do the things that they voted for him to do.

Get up! Get outta here! Gone!

Justice no longer exists. Do crimes!

Now prosecute the politicians who continue to repeat his lies.

Apparently it didn't bother you enough to stop watching after they did the same thing in the 2007 Christmas Episode "Voyage of the Damned" when Kylie Minogue's character, Astrid, scarified her life much in the same way that Joy did in this year's episode. Joy became a star while Astrid became stardust.

Of course that's when they had a straight, white male playing the Doctor so perhaps you weren't so inclined then to be looking for something to cry about.

Truth and accountability are antithetical to being a republican these days.

Truth and accountability are antithetical to being a republican these days.

Truth and accountability are antithetical to being a republican these days.

It doesn't mean you agree with everything you voted for.

just sayin....

#3 | Posted by eberly

Actions talk, BS walks. This guys actions tell us all anyone should need to know about him when assessing his fitness for the job.

No apology needed. I'm sure he would appreciate just being remembered.
My father was a Vietnam vet too. He was never the person he was before he went according to my mom. He had a lot of mental health and addition problems after coming back but he loved baseball and that is one of the few good things he passed on to me. He used to read Bill James in the 1980's and got me interested in SABR. It is my interest in SABR that led me to know who you were talking about.
Charlie Finley owned the A's back then. He took a lot of unorthodox approaches towards baseball and one of those was the idea of the "designated runner". He'd keep a guy on the roster who rarely if ever hit or played the field, just pinch run. Herb Washington was the most of famous of those. He played in 105 MLB games and stole 31 bases but never had a plate appearance or played the field.

#2 - I know the guy you are talking about because of his unique career. His name was Darrell Woodard and he made it to the big leagues for a brief time. Never had a hit. Reached base once by walk but had 10 runs, 3 steals and caught stealing 4 times. A's mainly used him as a pinch runner.
He wasn't bad at the plate in the minors. He knew how to take a walk and reached base often but he was playing when batting average was still king of stats. Had he come along a decade later when Tony Larussa was managing the A's he might have made a decent career for himself as TLR placed a higher value on on-base percentage.

One of greatest players I've ever had the privilege of watching. Got an autograph from him at spring training 2006 when he was coaching for the Mets.
A little trivia I recall about him. Nolan Ryan pitched his seventh no-hitter for the Rangers on the same day Rickey broke Brock's record.

I guess Abbott didn't really mean it when he said "goal number one in the state of Texas is to eliminate rape so that no woman, no person, will be a victim of rape"

Stop the presses! A young straight man has a thing for young straight women.
#13 | Posted by lee_the_agent

The word women implies adulthood.
I believe the word you are looking for is children.

Must has went full oligarch.

Trump is trying to earn a political appointment for a family member from Desantis and just so happens Desantis name has recently been floated for SecDef.
I'm sure MAGATS see no issue here.