PHOENIX — Republican lawmakers have once again blocked a vote on whether Arizona should ratify the federal Equal Rights Amendment.
But they did it in a way that allowed GOP lawmakers to avoid actually having to take a position on the measure.
The fight is over HCR 2030. As crafted, it would put Arizona on record in support of the measure, proposed by Congress in 1972, to add language to the U.S. Constitution to say “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex.”
