The SCOTUS decision regarding MI affirmative action.

[MadrasT]

2. I am not sure how the ERA would fix that.

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.

To me, it says the same thing as banning preferential treatment based on gender. You can't discriminate against women, but you also can't favor them.

If you added race and sexual preference to the ERA, it would seems to completely negate the possibility of affirmative action measures.

I am not arguing against affirmative action, I am just saying the ERA would also seem to make affirmative action impossible (if you expanded it to include race).

(What am I not understanding? Because I really don't know a damn thing about it.)