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Julie C. Suk is Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Liberal Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation is a sham, but it is one the Constitution allows. There’s only one way out of this crisis: we must amend.
Renewed efforts to quash it stand to wipe out a hundred years of women’s work as constitution-makers.
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