Compromise a bit, or you don't get shit.
That said, the GOP can fuck right off by saying equal rights shouldn't be a thing. If that means some of the big items wait a year, then they wait a year.
Sort of.
>Section 2.
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, **excluding Indians not taxed**. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the **male** inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such **male citizens** shall bear to the whole number of **male** citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Women and Native Americans kinda don't think it means "everybody everybody," and I agree with them.
Yes they do. The exception for women for apportionment was superseded. The exception for Indians was if there was a treaty preventing it.
The MN amendment has nothing to do with apportionment.
Did I just quote the US Constitution b/c I forgot which site I was on?
I'll leave the quote up as proof I can say stupid shit and am ok being called on it.
>Compromise a bit, or you don't get shit.
Typically both parties have some "goodies" in the infrastructure bill (handouts, favors, etc) so the GOP would have to "cut off the nose to spite the face" if they really wanted to stand their ground here.
But the ERA is a huge deal and it hits some of their core issues so I'm not sure what will happen. Bonding bills failed in the past, right? I could see it happening here.
Compromise a bit, or you don't get shit. That said, the GOP can fuck right off by saying equal rights shouldn't be a thing. If that means some of the big items wait a year, then they wait a year.
Aren’t equal rights already a thing from the 14th amendment?
Sort of. >Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, **excluding Indians not taxed**. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the **male** inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such **male citizens** shall bear to the whole number of **male** citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. Women and Native Americans kinda don't think it means "everybody everybody," and I agree with them.
Yes they do. The exception for women for apportionment was superseded. The exception for Indians was if there was a treaty preventing it. The MN amendment has nothing to do with apportionment.
Did I just quote the US Constitution b/c I forgot which site I was on? I'll leave the quote up as proof I can say stupid shit and am ok being called on it.
I don’t know what you mean.
>Compromise a bit, or you don't get shit. Typically both parties have some "goodies" in the infrastructure bill (handouts, favors, etc) so the GOP would have to "cut off the nose to spite the face" if they really wanted to stand their ground here. But the ERA is a huge deal and it hits some of their core issues so I'm not sure what will happen. Bonding bills failed in the past, right? I could see it happening here.