The Supreme Court announced on Thursday that next term it will hear two cases on state bans on transgender athletes in ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has taken up a series of cases to be decided during its next term, which begins in October, involving issues such as transgender rights, campaign finance law, gay "conversion ...

The court also separately has acted on an emergency basis in a number of cases involving challenges to President Donald Trump ...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to hear a bid by Idaho and West Virginia to enforce their state laws banning ...

Virginia has officially approved the Equal Rights Amendment. Twelve days after the state Senate and House of Delegates initially backed the women’s rights measure, both bodies approved it again ...

9. The Equal Rights Amendment’s deadline is still being debated. Congress imposed a deadline of 1979 for ratification by three-quarters of the states, then extended that to 1982.

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is back in the headlines with new ferocity. Following Virginia’s ratification earlier this year, the House of Representatives moved swiftly to grant the ...

Nevada became the first state to ratify the amendment after the 1982 deadline in 2017, followed by Illinois in 2018. Ratifying the ERA was a priority for the Virginia legislature after Democrats ...

Last month, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the long-contested Equal Rights Amendment. By some measures, this should mean the amendment becomes part of the Constitution—the 28th Amendment.

Virginia’s ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment this week represents not only a potential milestone for the ERA’s century-long struggle but also a remarkable evolution for a state that ...

Activists call 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, Va., Jan. 8, 2020.

The Equal Rights Amendment — which bars discrimination based on sex — might now be set to become part of the U.S. Constitution, after the Virginia General Assembly voted Monday to ratify it.