OLC: Equal Rights Amendment Expired Decades Ago | National Review

OLC: Equal Rights Amendment Expired Decades Ago | National Review: It’s no surprise, and ought not to be controversial, that the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel has issued an opinion advising the National Archives that the ERA proposed in 1972 long ago expired and that, in the event that another state were to purport to ratify that amendment, the National Archives should not and could not certify the ERA to be part of the Constitution.