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Nevada ratifies Equal Rights Amendment


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By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal

CARSON CITY — The Nevada Senate on Wednesday put an exclamation point on the state’s ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, 45 years to the day after it was passed by Congress and sent to states.

The Senate on a voice vote concurred with minor adjustments made by the Assembly, making Nevada the 36th state to ratify the amendment that seeks equal rights for women under the U.S. Constitution.

Senate Joint Resolution 2 passed the Senate and Assembly on largely party-line votes, with Sen. Heidi Gansert and Assemblywoman Jill Tolles, both Reno Republicans, joining Democrats to approve it. It now goes to Congress.

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  1. don't give up says - Posted: March 24, 2017

    Does this stupid and foolish nonsense mean that no more than 50% of college grads can be XX chromosomes or that grad and professional schools can graduate no more than 50% female or that half of all the Oakland Raiders players must be non XY? Of course not, but this asinine, nonsensical, and corrupting gibberish still got passed by the fools we call our leaders. How virtuous and smug these morons must feel in their own personal psychosis.