A group of House Democrats was expelled on April 27 while protesting as Senate Republicans voted to block a joint resolution to remove the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution.
The sergeant at arms was called to restore order and expel protesters, among whom were Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Cori Bush (D-Mo.), who didn’t have authorization to be on the Senate floor.
The protest was led by Pressley and Bush, who co-chair the Congressional Equal Rights Amendment Caucus. They’re also both members of the progressive “squad” made up of House lawmakers, including Reps. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.).
“Gender equality can’t wait. There should be no deadline for that,” Pressley said.
“We deserve for gender equality to be enshrined in the Constitution,” she added. “We’re going to go in here, look at our Senate colleagues, and demand they do the right thing by the women of this country.”
Bush explained that the group was “right outside the Senate chamber” while the vote took place inside.
“So, the House is standing, saying to the Senate: ‘We need you to make the ERA happen today. ERA now,” Bush said in the video.
In a follow-up video shared by Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.) following their protest, the congresswoman explained that the group was being expelled after they marched from the House to the Senate and protested inside the chamber.
“I’m getting kicked out. I’m not even in the area. We have a lot of rules around here, but listen we’re getting expelled out of here, we just left where they don’t have enough votes to pass the ERA,” Lee said.
In the post accompanying the video, Lee said it was a “shame that 100 years after the Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced, we are still fighting for gender equality in our Constitution.”
After being expelled, the group of House Democrats chanted: “What do we want? ERA! When do we want it? Now!” as they marched to a press conference outside.
The Vote
The Senate was voting on whether or not to remove the deadline for ratifying the resolution proposing the constitutional amendment, which would grant equal legal rights to all citizens regardless of sex.
The proposed joint resolution (pdf) was introduced in the Senate on Jan. 24 by Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). It sought to remove the deadline for the ratification of the ERA to the U.S. Constitution.
The ERA was a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that was first drafted in 1923 and passed by Congress in 1973. Its purpose is to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. It came with the stipulation that the amendment must be ratified within seven years.
The text of the amendment states, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”
After being passed by Congress, the amendment was subsequently sent to the states for ratification. However, the amendment failed to gain the necessary support of three-fourths of the states within the 1978 deadline set by Congress, and as a result, it has not been added to the Constitution.
Owing to insufficient time to meet the required number of ratifications, Congress voted to extend the deadline for ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment to June 30, 1982. However, despite the extension, the amendment was not ratified until 2020 when Virginia finally approved it. Unfortunately, the amendment’s ratification deadline had already passed, and it is yet to become law.
The defeated joint resolution sought to remove the deadline for ratification of the ERA, thereby allowing the amendment to be added to the Constitution if it is ratified by three-fourths of the states at any time in the future.
The resolution fell short of the required 60 votes to invoke cloture despite two Republicans, namely Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Murkowski, voting in favor of it alongside 49 Democrats on April 27.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) expressed disappointment at the outcome but promised to continue the fight. He switched his vote to “no” so that he could bring up the bill at a later time, and he stated at a press conference outside the Capitol that supporters of the amendment would keep fighting until they succeed.
“Women are under assault politically in so many ways, whether it’s the right to choose, or women’s health care, or discrimination, or so many other things,” he asserted. “It’s about time America said no to all of that.
“It’s about time America said no to the MAGA majority on the Supreme Court, that we need protections for women,” he added.
Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Cori Bush (D-Mo.) support the “equity rights amendment” of Marxism aka the destruction of the United States Constitution.
There is equal opportunity, then there is forced equal outcomes. Then there is righteous equal throwing out of confused anarchist Reps who have not a clue what they were elected to do, which is Unite THE PEOPLE, not become cry babies recenty escaped from their cribs. The less people possess of morality, and the ability to self-govern, the more they are in need of laws to control them. Enter the out of control squad who thinks they were elected to just protest, rather than come up with reasonable solutions. Emotionally driven people who cannot govern their actions, emptions, in Self-govenment have no business being on the floor of the House of THE PEOPLE.
I laughed when they said “Womens rights are under attack”.. YES THEY ARE.. BY ALL the dems support of the LGBTQ AGENDA!!!
Although it’s not widely known, it’s a matter of historical fact that the hypocritical Communist traitor Dishonest Abe Lincoln wanted to send all of the black people in America back to Africa. If he had fools like Ayanna Presley and Cori Bush in mind then he was absolutely right.
And you have to wonder—had he been successful, would we have the racial tensions in this country today that we have. It is just an honest thought question—I’m not advocating anything. I know a lot of today’s problems are instigated by militant activists and Liberal politicians with an agenda.
Maybe you didn’t know your history, but it is indeed widely known, and also widely known is that Pres Lincoln was not “Forcing” them to go to Africa. And apparently, many of them chose to remain in the States. Catch up !!!
There’s days i wonder that myself.. WOULD WE as a nation be better off, HAD HE FOLLOWED through with that.
They do not speak of Equal rights. And I’m sure their “equity rights for women” include males with or without all their maleness intact.
” Where civil-rights opponents went off the rails was when they justly demanded equal rights to unjustly demanding EQUAL OUTCOME.”
John F. Kennedy
“Women are under assault politically in so many ways, whether it’s the right to choose, or women’s health care, or discrimination, or so many other things,”
Abortion, killing one’s unborn baby IS NOT a constitutional right nor should it be!
In 1964, Congress passed Public Law 88-352 (78 Stat. 241). The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing.
This is just an end run to force all states and citizens to provide and pay for baby killing.
What about the health care of the baby if it is a female unborn baby?
It wouldn’t matter Democrats do not follow the Laws or the U.S. Constitution anyway.
* Biden had met with his top three contenders for his nomination to the supreme court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, J. Michelle Childs and Leondra Kruger. Note, all Black Women, no males were considered. This is discrimination.
* Article 4 Section 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion;
(I do believe we the U.S. is being invaded by multi-Millions of illegal immigrants and the Democrats are encouraging this invasion)
Schumer needs to be investigated. He is a danger to our Country.
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) states that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” At the time equal pay for women was the primary concern, not so much equal responsibility. WOKE whiners soon threw in every imagined sexual proclivity they could socially in their imagination redefine to be included that was designed originally for the protections of women, now including men who insanely imagine themselves to be women. What was originally designed to bring us together in equality, when placed into the hands of power manipulating secular socialist became a very expensive divisive weapon indeed, costing Americans billions in lawsuits, legal fees and political formed factions which only drove men from women and women from men, and those in between into fits of social insanity. The do-gooders should have stayed out of the bedroom and stayed in the wheel houses that government, not sex obsessed psychiatrists were designed for. Better they had passed a law that made all Americans pay the same percent of their income in taxes regardless of gender or amount of income, for a true equal consequence under the law, taking away the power of social redistributors of wealth from muddying up the waters and creating more chaos between our family members. Those who earned little would be motivated to improve their lives, not distribute the earned life force of others who paid more as they earned more.
ARE these not the same fools who KEEP SAYING there is no thing as sex, just gender?
” “Gender equality can’t wait. There should be no deadline for that,” Pressley said. ”
Does she know what a “deadline” is and how it functions?
I think Dinesh D’Souza asked the best question on this: Even if abortion “rights” were written in the Bill Of Rights in plain English, none of the other Rights are subsidized, why should this one be singled out for taxpayer funding?
Sign up for the draft and equal rights for men in Custody battles
I’ve long been saying if women REALLY Wanna be ‘equal’ the should have the SAME REQUIREMENTS AS MEN do.. NOT just the same privileges.
I though disrupting Congressional business was an assault on our democracy. Why aren’t Bush, Pressley and others in jail with the January 6th protesters.
BECAUSE It was only CONSERVATIVES who get that label. Just look at the sheer # OF TIMES libtards, have occupied congress, or state buildings, and not just disrupted the proceedings, BUT IN MANY CASES DROVE the politicians OUT of the building, into their offices etc. YET NOT ONCE Have any of THEM been CHARGED for that, let alone gone to jail.
These women are Pelosi’s gang of unamerican Karens pushing transgender **** on the American people. They should of been kicked out of Congress years ago. They are the ones destroying women’s rights. They are nasty lying loud mouth wokeness women who hate real women. They are getting paid by Soros and the democrats to divide America more.
I thought they were still struggling to define what a woman is. How can they give rights to something when the don’t know what it is?
Just like how can the left call to ban something, when they can’t OR WON’T Define what it is (RE ASSAULT WEAPONS).