My name is Linda Jackson and I currently live in Shreveport, LA which is my hometown. I

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My name is Linda Jackson and I currently live in Shreveport, LA which is my hometown. I decided to return home after 40 years of living in Dallas, Germany, and Tallahassee, Florida. I have a 35-year-old son. Before enlisting in the Army, I worked as a personnel manager at Sears and later as 7th grade middle school teacher. While in the Army, my job was classified as a 75B which was a personnel administrative specialist. After the Army, I began a career in the legal field as a legal assistant and prior to that I worked as an administrative assistant to a forensics expert who served as a trial expert witness.

My hobbies include needlecrafts especially knitting, crochet, sewing, cooking, and watching good action, science fiction, and horror movies. I am always glued to YouTube. There is so much to learn about just about anything. Gardening is my new hobby, and I am planning for the next planting season in the spring.

Right now, I am enjoying my new surroundings since this city has really grown. There are so many things to doaround here, but the crime rate is horrendous. Everybody has a weapon which seems to be the way of life in this city. I am having fun learning how to get around hereand getting reacquainted with old friends. Everybody's planning Mardi Gras activities mostly parades and parties by different krewes or neighborhoods. Most of the folks in north Louisiana are Dallas Cowboys fans. They live and breathe Cowboys around here. By the way, New Orleans is about 5 hours away and Dallas is just 2 hours. It is a shopper's paradise.

I look forward to learning and discovering more about the legal aspects of human resources and management and also participating in lively discussions with the class.

Linda Jackson

Part B

It is my opinion that the ratification of Equal Rights Amendment would definitely have an impact on gender discrimination in the workplace. Since only about the states so far have ratified the ERA Amendment, it is in sort of limbo. This matter has been in contention forover 50 years and appears to become legal and social issues which seem to be unresolvable. States have constantly gone back and forth on their backing of this amendment.

InColeman v. Miller(1939) the Supreme Court ruled that the controversies around the promulgation or proclamation of constitutional amendments were political questions for Congress, not courts, to decide. The ongoing precedential force ofColeman, however, has been widely questioned by scholars. The text of Article V does not specify a role for Congress in the amendment process after proposing it to the states for ratification, and the Supreme Court has actually adjudicated several cases contesting the validity of the amendment process. The ERA Amendment seems undecided since leaders and constituents constantly changed their minds about issues such as abortion and equal rights in the workplace. Although movements like Me Tooand the many women legislative and judicial members are very impressive. While wages and salaries for women is still a problem which needs to be addressed sooner rather than later.

In January 2020, Virginia, Nevada, and Illinois filed a complaint in federal district court seeking relief that would have ordered the Archivist to publish and certify the ERA as part of the Constitution under 1 U.S.C. 106b. In Virginia v. Ferriero, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the lawsuit, primarily on its conclusion that the states lacked standing to invoke the court's jurisdiction. Article III of the Constitution generally requires a plaintiff in federal court to establish standing to invoke the court's jurisdiction. Standing is designed to guarantee that a court will exercise its jurisdiction only when a plaintiff has suffered an actual injury traceable to the defendant's challenged conduct, and the jury will likely be redressed by a favorable judicial decision. In Ferriero, the states expressed that the Archivist's refusal to certify the amendment interfered with their sovereign interests. The states argued that as "sovereign states in the Constitution's federal system," they have an interest in how they participate in that system, including their authority to amend the Constitution.

The deadline dates to reach an agreement on the ERA Amendment continues to present a problem for Congress. There appears to be a consensus that abortion and equal pay issues still remain supreme in our society today. When Trump took office the ERA Amendment was rolled back with nothing moving forward regarding equality for women.

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