Julia Longoria
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It fell three states short. To get a constitutional amendment passed, turns out you need three quarters of state legislatures to say they want it. That is 38 out of 50. They only ever got 35. Dude. So the question is, if you want to get equal rights for women written into the law, what do you do? There's no ERA. The women's lib movement sparked a backlash. Like, what do you do?
It fell three states short. To get a constitutional amendment passed, turns out you need three quarters of state legislatures to say they want it. That is 38 out of 50. They only ever got 35. Dude. So the question is, if you want to get equal rights for women written into the law, what do you do? There's no ERA. The women's lib movement sparked a backlash. Like, what do you do?
It fell three states short. To get a constitutional amendment passed, turns out you need three quarters of state legislatures to say they want it. That is 38 out of 50. They only ever got 35. Dude. So the question is, if you want to get equal rights for women written into the law, what do you do? There's no ERA. The women's lib movement sparked a backlash. Like, what do you do?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg. RBG can do 20 push-ups and not the so-called girl kind. Now, before she was a Supreme Court justice.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg. RBG can do 20 push-ups and not the so-called girl kind. Now, before she was a Supreme Court justice.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg. RBG can do 20 push-ups and not the so-called girl kind. Now, before she was a Supreme Court justice.
It's the first time she argued in front of the Supreme Court in 1973.
It's the first time she argued in front of the Supreme Court in 1973.
It's the first time she argued in front of the Supreme Court in 1973.
But we can imagine that it was in one of those long pauses that Ruth Bader Ginsburg rescued some of the key principles behind the ERA, repackaged them, and marched them in through a side door.
But we can imagine that it was in one of those long pauses that Ruth Bader Ginsburg rescued some of the key principles behind the ERA, repackaged them, and marched them in through a side door.
But we can imagine that it was in one of those long pauses that Ruth Bader Ginsburg rescued some of the key principles behind the ERA, repackaged them, and marched them in through a side door.
So let me walk you through it now because it's beautiful. The ERA fight is underway, and RBG and her colleagues are watching this happen, right? And they're getting worried. What if the ERA doesn't pass? So what are we going to do if that's the case? How are we going to get equal rights for women? So they decided, okay, as an alternate approach, let's go back to the 14th Amendment.