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Julie C. Suk is a professor of sociology, political science, and liberal studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She is the author of We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment. Find her on Twitter @JulieCSuk.
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.
This year Virginia became the crucial thirty-eighth state to ratify the ERA. Renewed efforts to quash it stand to wipe out a hundred years of women’s work as constitution-makers.
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