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RICHMOND, Va.  AP  鈥?Virginia   attorney general, who has vowed to go to court if needed to see the Equal Rights Amendment adopted, plans to announce  landmark civil rights litigation  dealing with the propos stanley cup ed Constitutional amendment, his office announced Wednesday.Attorney General Mark Herring is partnering on the  stanley cup lawsuit with fellow Democratic attorneys general Kwame Raoul of Illinois and Aaron Ford of Nevada, Herring   office said in a news release, which did not provide additional details about the litigation. A news conference to discuss it was planned for Thursday.The announcement came two days after Virginia became the critica stanley cup l 38th state to ratify the measure, which would prohibit discrimination based on sex. Nevada and Illinois were the next-most recent states to ratify the ERA  Nevada in 2017 and Illinois in 2018.Typically, constitutional amendments must be ratified by three-quarters of the states, or 38. But the ERA   future is uncertain, in part because of a 1982 deadline for ratification that Congress enacted decades ago. Many legal observers expect its future to be determined in the courts.Herring said on Monday that he was committed  to making sure that we use every single tool at our disposal to make sure the Equal Rights Amendment becomes a part of the United States constitution as it should be. On Tuesday, the National Archives and Records Administration confirmed it had received Virginia   ratification documentation but said Bwdj India to bring supplies to Kashmir; Pakistan to go to UN

Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Sunday that state officials were doing all we can to prepare for damage from Hurricane Irma hours after it made stanley cup  landfall in southern Florida. The storm brought Category 4 winds that reached 130 mph as it made landfall in the Florida Keys Sunday morning. Tens of thousands of people hunkered down in  stanley cup more than 500 shelters across the state as high winds and flooding began to grip the Florida Keys and areas around Miami. Scott said that a vast majority of the state is experie stanley cup ncing storm-force winds and that the eye of the storm was approaching the Naples-Fort Myers area.Scott said he has spoken to President Donald Trump and requested a Major Disaster Declaration from the federal government, which would increase the amount of public assistance to Florida from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. We will make it through this together,  he said.                                                                                                         Go Deeper                                        florida                            hurricane irma                            newshour weekend                            rick scott                                                                                                                                  By 鈥?                                               Corinne Segal                                                    Corinne Segal


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