August 18, 2020 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, August 18
Good morning, and happy 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment!
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
- How a Jack Daniels hospitality suite (yes, during Prohibition) and one freshman representative’s mother influenced the final vote for ratification by the state of Tennessee.
- The War of the Roses prior to ratification in Tennessee.
- The U. S. Mint is issuing a new silver dollar today in honor of the centennial of the 19th Amendment.
- How the sash went from a suffragette’s emblem to identifying a contestant’s home state in the Miss America pageant.
In other news:
- Chatham County Commissioner James “Coach” Holmes died of COVID-19 following a 17-day hospitalization.
- Wall Street is betting on Biden to win, and for the first time in a decade, has contributed more to Democrats than Republicans.
- A new poll from WSB and Landmark Communications puts Trump’s lead over Biden within the margin of error.
- The Atlanta City Council voted to approve three months of rent deferment for 18 passenger carriers and 19 cargo carriers at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport.
- QAnon, anti-maskers, reopen activists, anti-vaxxers… they’re all related.
About Author
Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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Do you think the ERA amendment will ever be ratified and become the newest amendment? I never read about it anymore.
” The Equal Rights Amendment is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. It seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters.”
38 states have ratified it (Virginia was the latest as of January 2020). Five states have tried to rescind their original ratification ( Nebraska, Tennessee, Idaho, Kentucky, and South Dakota) but there is no process for rescinding in the Constitution so that may not count.
It was a big deal in the 1970’s and 1980’s but not much news about it lately.
https://www.equalrightsamendment.org/
So… members of Trump 2016 really were a ‘grave counterintelligence threat’…?
https://www.axios.com/senate-intelligence-russia-interference-971619a8-a806-470a-9de6-1416220ab35b.html
Also… (paywall version)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/senate-intelligence-trump-russia-report/2020/08/18/62a7573e-e093-11ea-b69b-64f7b0477ed4_story.html?tidr=a_breakingnews&hpid=hp_no-name_hp-breaking-news%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar
Trump is pardoning Susan B Anthony for (checks notes)…. voting illegally…
Irony really is dead.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/on-centennial-of-19th-amendment-trump-pardons-susan-b-anthony/ar-BB186sIT?ocid=msedgntp