“Tennessee was one of five states that rescinded its ratification before the 1979 deadline,” said Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III. “Tennessee has an interest in ensuring that its vote to reject the ERA is given effect and that the explicit timeframe set by Congress to ratify the ERA is enforced. As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently stated, the ERA cannot become part of the Constitution unless it is ‘put back in the political hopper and we start over again collecting the necessary states to ratify it.’ Until that happens, Tennessee will continue to fight to protect the progress women have made and to defend the rule of law upon which we all depend.”

Protect the progress women have made but not equal rights?

Lol, Republican talking about the "rule of law." That's rich.