Earlier this week the Virginia Senate voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. If the Virginia House of Delegates follows suit (which is by no means certain), then Virginia will become the 38th state to ratify the ERA if the rescission votes of five of those 38 states are disregarded. As a result, a yes vote by the Virginia House will lead to a formal petition to the Archivist of the United States for recognition of the ERA as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment. Stay tuned.