Good Law | Bad Law

Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast series Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by Lucy Beard, Executive Director of the Alice Paul Institute, and Roberta “Bobby” Francis, founding Chair of the ERA Taskforce of the National Council of Women’s Organizations and the current ERA Education Consultant for the Alice Paul Institute, to discuss the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA.)   Celebrating our 100th episode today, Aaron, Lucy and Bobby sit down to discuss the Equal Rights Amendment, today’s political climate, and the idea of equal protection for everyone under the law. Is the ERA more relevant than ever? And more so, is it finally close to being ratified? Lucy, Bobby, and Aaron attempt to answer these questions as Lucy and Bobby explain what the ERA actually is, the history of the proposed amendment, and the opposition it has faced throughout the past decades. Today’s conversation centers around why and how the ERA is not yet part of our country’s constitution and takes a fasc