FILE PHOTO: Activists calling for Virginia’s adoption of the Equal Rights Amendment gather outside the Virginia State Capitol building as the General Assembly prepares to convene in Richmond, Virginia, U.S. January 8, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake
(Reuters) – The last three states to pass the Equal Rights Amendment sued the archivist of the U.S. government on Thursday, demanding that an amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteeing equal rights for women be declared valid.
Virginia, Illinois and Nevada filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, furthering a fight over whether the deadline to ratify the ERA has passed.
Reporting by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama
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