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   Heidi Li Feldman (heidilifeldman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 10:26:18 JST Heidi Li Feldman

   It really pisses people off when I point out the straight line from the misogyny that led the Democratic Party to nominate a less qualified, less experienced man for President in 2008 to an incoming presidential administration full of incapable, unqualified, and shady men in 2024. 1/

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     Heidi Li Feldman (heidilifeldman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 10:26:15 JST Heidi Li Feldman

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     I can’t imagine a more obvious or needed step Biden could take between now and the end of his term. And I can’t think of any reason for a failure to do so than deeply baked-in misogyny, the sort of prejudice that blinds people to what is clearly ethically, legally, and politically warranted. 11/11

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     Heidi Li Feldman (heidilifeldman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 10:26:16 JST Heidi Li Feldman

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     Right up to the present moment, Joe Biden, sitting President and Democrat, could take a major step to affirming U.S. women’s legal and political equality. He could order the director of the National Archives to publish the Equal Rights Amendment, which has been ratified by the requisite number of states. Publication is how the federal government makes it clear that an Amendment to the constitution has been made. 8/

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     Heidi Li Feldman (heidilifeldman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 10:26:16 JST Heidi Li Feldman

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     Biden’s DoJ has already taken the position that the ERA has been properly ratified. So unless Biden is on the other side of that question, he has a statutory obligation to ensure that the National Archives, an executive agency, publishes the ERA. 9/

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     Heidi Li Feldman (heidilifeldman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 10:26:16 JST Heidi Li Feldman

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     A published ERA would draw challenge from Republicans hoping to get the Trumpian Roberts Court to say that the ERA has not been properly ratified. Maybe the Roberts Court would ultimately rule that way. But so what? Unless and until it did, women would be able to protect their reproductive rights, their right to travel, their right to equal pay by arguing to every court in the land d that the U.S.Constitution guarantees equality to women, just as it does to people of color. 10/

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     Heidi Li Feldman (heidilifeldman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 10:26:17 JST Heidi Li Feldman

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     That the Democratic Party and Democratic voters, consciously and unconsciously, let misogyny propel a novice political figure ahead of HRC paved the way for Trump in both 2016 and 2024. To a lesser extent it had contributed to every misogynist political and legal trend since, including some that plenty of people don’t notice as misogynist. 5/

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     Heidi Li Feldman (heidilifeldman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 10:26:17 JST Heidi Li Feldman

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     Both the Democratic and Republican parties repeatedly make it clear that women are not to be primarily powerful. Michelle Obama can be a popular Democratic figure, so long as she was a very traditional First Lady and lately celebrity-circuit figure. 6/

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     Heidi Li Feldman (heidilifeldman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 10:26:17 JST Heidi Li Feldman

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     The hysteria on the right about trans people and their rights sure isn’t driven by women who transition to male identities. The hysteria firmly grounded in the idea that no boy or man or boy’s parents in their sane minds would pick, or allow their kid to pick, second class status. And being a woman is always second class. 7/

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     Heidi Li Feldman (heidilifeldman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 10:26:18 JST Heidi Li Feldman

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     Just because it pisses people off, however, does not mean it isn’t accurate.

     Obviously, there’s no comparison between the qualifications of Obama in 2008 and Trump ever. But that has nothing to do with my point. The left, and particularly men on the left, reacted to HRC with palpable, explicit misogyny. 2/

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     Heidi Li Feldman (heidilifeldman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 10:26:18 JST Heidi Li Feldman

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     The world was less online in 2008, but for those of us who were and were supporting HRC, encountered high-toned and vulgar misogyny and every kind in between throughout the primary season. I had to help the Clinton delegates to the convention put HRC’s name in nomination, as was traditional and pursuant to DNC rules. 3/

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     Heidi Li Feldman (heidilifeldman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 10:26:18 JST Heidi Li Feldman

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     Whether rank and file or party level, no Democrat, including Obama himself, ever named, let alone criticized the misogynist attacks directed at Clinton or her women supporters. 4/

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     Catherine Morris (cmorris@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 14:06:08 JST Catherine Morris

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     @mytwobits01. Yes. Yet there’s nothing to prevent the President from setting the balls in motion by certifying and publishing. American girls and women need this overdue acknowledgment of their constitutional equality, and there’s plenty of legal opinion to support it. Cc @heidilifeldman

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     mytwobits01 (mytwobits01@freeradical.zone)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 14:06:09 JST mytwobits01

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     @cmorris @heidilifeldman

     Thanks, Catherine.

     The OLC's bottom line seems to be "Whether the ERA is part of the Constitution will be resolved not by an
     OLC opinion but by the courts and Congress.".

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     Catherine Morris (cmorris@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 14:06:10 JST Catherine Morris

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     • mytwobits01

     For those researching, here is a link to the text of the 2022 DOJ opinion on the ERA: https://www.justice.gov/olc/file/1466036/dl. Cc. @heidilifeldman @mytwobits01. Also see an explainer by the Columbia ERA project: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1025&context=gender_sexuality_law

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     mytwobits01 (mytwobits01@freeradical.zone)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 14:06:11 JST mytwobits01

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     Do you have a pointer regarding the DoJ position? I found and read the 2022 OLC opinion, but it doesn't take that position.