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Amendments by Acclamation: Democrats Move to Simply Declare the Equal Rights Amendment as Ratified

JonathanTurley

But it fell short of that constitutional threshold. Not only that, but four states — Nebraska, Tennessee, Idaho, Kentucky — rescinded their prior ratifications; a fifth, South Dakota, set its ratification to expire if the ERA was not adopted by the 1979 deadline. In 1981, a federal district court ruled in Idaho v.

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From Affirmative Action to Andy Warhol: Buckle up for a Wild Supreme Court Term

JonathanTurley

Bollinger , the court divided 5-4 on upholding race admissions criteria used to achieve “diversity” in a class at Michigan Law School. (On On the same day, the court ruled 6-3 to declare Michigan’s undergraduate admissions unconstitutional in the use of race in Gratz v. In 2003, in Grutter v. Bollinger.).

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