And there are many within the Trump administration or support it that would love nothing more than to revoke a woman’s right to vote, including SecDef Pete Hegseth.
History:
In January 1918, the woman suffrage amendment passed the House of Representatives with the necessary two-thirds majority vote. In June 1919, it was approved by the Senate and sent to the states for ratification. Campaigns were waged by suffragists around the country to secure ratification, and on August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment, giving it the three-fourths majority of state ratification necessary to make it the law of the land.
The package containing the certified record of the action of the Tennessee legislature was sent by train to the nation’s capital, arriving in the early hours of August 26. At 8 a.m. that morning, Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby signed it without ceremony at his residence in Washington. None of the leaders of the woman suffrage movement were present when the proclamation was signed, and no photographers or film cameras recorded the event. That afternoon, Carrie Chapman Catt, head of the National American Suffrage Association, was received at the White House by President Woodrow Wilson and Edith Wilson, the first lady.
Trump pulled the ERA off the White House website.
In January 2025, Former President Biden issued a White House statement recognizing the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) as the “law of the land” and 28th Amendment to the US Constitution. This marked a pivotal moment in a century-long effort to secure constitutional protections for equality in the United States. However, Biden’s declaration does not mean the effort to achieve constitutional equality is over. Just days after leaving office, his declaration was removed from the White House website, underscoring the reality of continuing pushback against the validity of the ERA.
