At the state conference of the Georgia Chapter of the National Organization for Women, held Friday, August 25th, 2023 in Stockbridge Georgia, Marianne Williamson, a candidate for the Democratic Party’s 2024 Presidential nomination, told attendees: “On day one of my Presidency, I will call the archivist and command the publication of the Equal Rights Amendment.”  These remarks were made during a Q&A session following her lunchtime keynote address to the conference.  

The ERA achieved final ratification in January 2020 and enjoys vast public support.  The Biden Administration has created a constitutional crisis, by refusing to do what Marianne Williamson on Friday pledged to do: put women’s equality in the Constitution once and for all.  

Attorneys for the Biden Administration’s Department of Justice even fought against the ERA in two federal lawsuits – in Massachusetts and Washington DC.  The lawsuits were filed in January 2020 when Trump was in office. They were designed to compel the National Archivist to comply with federal law that mandates the Archivist to publish new constitutional amendments “forthwith,” as soon as the last necessary state ratifies.  (Title 1 US Code Section 106b).  

This statute requires publication of the ERA because it has been ratified in accordance with the requirements of Article V, of the Constitution.  Article V requires only two things: proposal by the Congress and ratification by three-fourths of the states.  Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972, submitting it to the states for ratification; and the last of the three-fourths of the states ratified it in 2020.  Trump and then Biden blocked the ERA, and now Marianne Williamson has pledged to unblock it.  

“The Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights welcomes Ms. Williamson’s promise,” said Romi Elnagar of Louisiana, a co-chair of the two-year-old membership organization.  The Green Alliance last year published a petition urging President Biden to instruct the National Archivist to publish the ERA.  “Women need urgent action to acknowledge that we have already amended the Constitution to guarantee us first class citizenship.  Biden panders to women for votes and contributions but refuses to use his authority to help establish women as equal persons under the law once and for all.”

The Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights is a pro-feminist, gender critical, women-led membership organization, independent of corporate parties and influence, seeking to engage in elections and other political activities.  

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Marianne Williamson Pledges Day-One Action to Publish the Equal Rights Amendment
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President Biden to Instruct Archivist to Publish the ERA
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