Memorandum for Robert J. Lipshutz, Counsel to the President, from John M. Harmon, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Re: Constitutionality of Extending the Time Period for Ratification of the Proposed Equal Rights Amendment

ASSITA-NT ATTORNE GENERAL eparttmet of Sustice October 31, 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR HONORABLE ROBERT J. LIPSHUTZ Counsel to the President Subject: Constitutionality of Extending the Time Period for Ratification of the Proposed Equal Rights Amendment This responds to your request for our opinion regarding the constitutionality of extending the period, presently scheduled to expire on March 22, 1979, for ratification by the States of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment. In the course of addressing t...