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On Sunday, June 28, 2026, CBS Sunday Morning aired a segment and released an article on the Equal Rights Amendment entitled "The Equal Rights Amendment: A Promise Unfulfilled." It was a great segment, and the piece does an excellent job laying out the history of the struggle for the ERA all the way up through 2020, when Virginia became the 38th state to ratify. CBS Sunday Morning reaches a huge national audience, and having that audience introduced to the ERA's history is genuinely valuable for the movement. We're grateful for the spotlight. Their piece ends in 2020. We want to pick up the story from there, because a lot has happened since and it's a conversation worth continuing. The ERA didn’t disappear after 2020. Strong women and supporters have kept fighting for the amendment they know they deserve. The ERA Coalition alone is made up of over 300 partner organizations representing 80 million people, and we're joined by countless other organizations working every day for women's rights and the ERA. A bill to recognize the ERA as the 28th Amendment has been introduced in almost every legislature since that pivotal 2020 ratification. And on January 17, 2025, President Biden declared the ERA the law of the land. This was a symbolic but significant milestone, even though he stopped short of directing the National Archives to formally certify it. Across the country, every single day, on the ground and at the federal level, we're working to finally secure recognition that the Equal Rights Amendment is the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Part of that work involves the timeline question CBS's piece touches on. What we know is that time limits are not part of the Constitution's Article V amendment process, and the deadline itself isn't in the language of the ERA that states actually ratified — it's in the preamble. There's precedent, too, for an amendment taking time: the 27th Amendment, dealing with congressional pay raises, was ratified 203 years after it was first proposed. Constitutional scholars including Lawrence Tribe, Geoffrey Stone, and Kathleen Sullivan, have written that a deadline like this one shouldn't stand in the way of an amendment otherwise duly ratified under Article V. There is no time limit on equality. We didn't stop after 2020. If anything, the coalition picked up the pace and intensity, and we won't rest until women have equality under the law. CBS's segment was a great start to this conversation. We hope this is a good next chapter. You can read the full CBS article here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-equal-rights-amendment-era/ And after that, sign our pledge and get involved: https://bit.ly/PledgeERA

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