Equal Means Equal vs. Donald Trump

This case is a challenge to the Military Se-lective Service Act (MSSA), 50 U.S.C. § 3801 et seq., which requires male citizens to register for the draft but bars women from doing so.

A hearing on the motion to dismiss was scheduled for November 17, 2025. It did not happen. Then another hearing was scheduled for December. It did not hap-pen.

The hearing on the motion to dismiss the case for failure to state a claim was reset for March 24, 2026 (remote only) before Judge William G. Young. Please check the Court schedule.

In order to gain access to the hearing, you must sign up here in advance.

For questions regarding access to hear-ings, you may refer to the general orders and public notices of the Court available on www.mad.uscourts.gov or contact the session here (KB) (Entered: 12/10/2025)

In 1916, two suffragists drove a bright gold Saxon motorcar called the Golden Flyer 10,700 miles across America. Why? Because women couldn’t vote and politicians were stalling. Today, Carolyn Maloney of Sign4ERA.org is telling their story to illustrate that today the Equal Rights Amendment is in the exact place suffrage was then.

We know that women de-serve full constitutional equality. But here we are in 2026 watching politicians stall the final step that would make equality enforceable.

How can we win and why 2026 is the year:

Now is the time to decide how you will participate in the campaign of Driving the Vote for Equality.

Congressional Updates from the Alice Paul web site

The Equal Rights Amendment was intro-duced in the House and Senate during Women’s History Month (March) in 2025.

Representative Press-ley’s Bill HJ Resolution 80 now has 215 co-sponsors, including Representative Bobby Scott. We still have three members, Adam Grey, Brian Fitzpatrick, and Henry Cuellar whose signatures are needed.

Co-sponsors of Bill SJ Resolution 38, Senator Murkowski and Senator Hirano are working to-gether to secure more Senators sign on.

The Senate bill is a companion bill to the House Resolution and the two bills share the same name: a joint resolution establishing the ratification of the Equal Rights Amend-ment.

The ERA Coalition meets twice every month, and we are learning how to place the ERA into our “250” events. More on this topic next month.

Lastly, a belated Happy Birthday to Alice Paul, (1885-1977) whose birthday was celebrated on January 11th at the Alice Paul Institute. No woman deserves the “Heart of a Woman” recognition more than this Quaker from New Jersey who, using tactics she’d learned in England, led the militant wing of the movement to rati-fy the 19th Amendment—giving women the right to vote. Her whole life was dedi-cated to fighting for women’s equality.

She was fond of saying, “There will never be a new world order until women are part of it.” May we keep her memory alive and keep marching forward.

Nancy Werner
Advocacy ERA