This explainer details New York State's latest effort to add an Equal Rights Amendment to its state Constitution.

This legal explainer lays out the latest on the federal Equal Rights Amendment.

Explaining the latest lawsuit challenging the New York Equal Rights Amendment: Marjorie Byrnes et al. v. The Senate of the State of New York et al.

This memorandum considers the possibility of Congress enacting legislation to strip the federal courts and the Supreme Court of jurisdiction over cases or controversies involving Article V of the Constitution of the United States.

This Q&A explains the background of the U.S. v. Rahimi case, what’s at stake when the constitutional right to possess a gun is used to undermine protections against gender-based violence, and how the final ratification of the ERA could, and should, alter the way the Supreme Court values the importance of comprehensive sex equality.

The ERA Projects answered questions on the Court of Appeals decision in Illinois v. Ferriero.

This resource provides an analysis of the potential for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to strengthen protections for LGBTQ rights, including marriage equality.

Adopted in 1938, the New York State Constitution’s equality protections fall far short of a modern notion of equality that would protect the rights of all New Yorkers. Legislation currently pending in the New York Legislature would update the state’s constitution by prohibiting forms of discrimination that are currently unrecognized by the law.

This explainer details how the ERA, which would add an explicit guarantee of sex equality to the United States Constitution, would protect the right to abortion and the full range of reproductive healthcare and is more critically needed now than ever before.

Today the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) released a new opinion on the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). This explainer provides a brief background, and describes the OLC opinion and its significance.

This legal explainer lays out the latest on the federal Equal Rights Amendment.