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GASBR Welcomes Stein Pledge on ERA
Expects More from a Green Candidate

Last week, Dr. Jill Stein, a candidate for the Green Party nomination for President of the United States at a campaign event at a home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, stated “We would do that on day one for sure”, in response to a question on the Equal Rights Amendment, indicating her support.   

“While we welcome this first public statement from her campaign on this subject”, we expect much more from the presumptive nominee of a self-described feminist political party,” said Carol A. Bouldin, Co-Chair of the Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights.  “It is not enough that she responds to questions on the subject.  Women in the United States need Dr. Stein to lead on this issue and incorporate it into her stump speech at every appearance in order to educate voters and demand immediate action from the current administration, long before the polls open for the November election.”

GASBR’s ERA Task Force has for months been communicating with Jill Stein about the Constitutional Crisis facing this nation and the political opportunity available to her campaign in this historic moment.  GASBR has been asking Stein to educate her campaign supporters and the public about the Trump and Biden Administrations’ obstruction of the ministerial duty of the National Archivist, in defiance of their oath of office to serve and protect the Constitution, including the Article V. provisions governing how it is amended.   

Biden Continues to Dissemble on ERA
as Administration Fails to Address Constitutional Crisis

Pandering for women's votes, on August 26, President Biden published a two paragraph statement for Women's Equality Day, stating that he will "continue to urge Congress to act swiftly to recognize ratification of the ERA".  Yet the Biden Administration's Department of Justice argued before the DC Court of Appeals last fall that there is no role left for Congress in the process.  

Although he campaigned for women’s votes in 2020, promising to support the Equal Rights Amendment that achieved final ratification in January of that year, President Biden has failed to instruct the National Archivists to fulfill their statutory obligation to “publish . . .  forthwith” the duly ratified Equal Rights Amendment. Biden appointed Dr. Colleen Shogan as our eleventh National Archivist.  Dr. Shogan at her Senate confirmation hearing said she would demur to judicial authorities over whether to fulfill her statutory duty to publish a finding that the Equal Rights Amendment has been ratified.  

"If Biden has really 'supported the ERA since (he) first ran for public office', as he asserted in his statement last week, why hasn't he picked up the phone and instructed the National Archivist to do her job and publish it?" asked Carol Bouldin, a co-chair of the Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights, a membership organization.  "His behavior leaves us with only two viable options, either he does not understand the Constitution he swore an oath to defend; or he remains hostile to women's equality but is lying because his re-election is dependent on women's votes.  Our members are asking, which is it?"  

NOW-PAC Squanders Political Capital
Undermines Own Mission, Opportunity to Demand Equality for Women
Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights organizes for an independent politics

As primary opponent Marianne Williamson used her keynote address on Friday to the Georgia chapter of NOW to pledge day one action to instruct the National Archivist to publish the Equal Rights Amendment, the “political action committee of the National Organization for Women (NOW), announced . . . it is endorsing President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for reelection in 2024.”

In their announcement, NOW’s National President sought to deceive her own membership and the voting public, claiming “This is our earliest endorsement for a presidential re-election campaign because the Biden-Harris administration has and continues to place women’s issues at the forefront, not through words but through actions.”

Yet, the Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights has repeatedly pointed out that both the actions and the inactions of the Biden Administration have created a Constitutional Crisis, and are evidence of President Biden’s failure in his Constitutional duty to see that the laws of the nation are faithfully executed.

“Women have been betrayed long enough by operatives in the non-profit sector who have prioritized their own partisan loyalties over their organization’s stated missions to work for the interests of women,” said Carol Bouldin of California, a co-chair of the Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights.  The Alliance exists to “organiz(e) political action independent of the corporate parties”.  

Marianne Williamson Pledges Day-One Action
To instruct Archivist to Publish the Equal Rights Amendment
Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights welcomes her leadership

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).