Statement on the Equal Rights Amendment Ratification Process | National Archives

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Statement on the Equal Rights Amendment Ratification Process | National Archives

Congress sent the Equal Rights Amendment to the states in 1972 with a seven-year deadline for ratification. The Department of Justice concluded in 2020 and in 2020 that Congress no longer has a role to play in the constitutional amendment ratification process once a resolution has been sent to the states; even the three-year extension was invalid.

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