As it stands today, New Yorkers will get to vote in November on a proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the state constitution. In the latest round of this on-again, off-again battle, a Rochester appellate court overturned an earlier decision, which said that Proposition 1, couldn’t be on the ballot because state legislators violated procedure in voting on the amendment in the first place. 
The ERA, also known as Proposition 1, would codify abortion access rights and add 11 new discrimination categories to New York’s Constitution.
But it’s not over yet. The lawyer who sued, civil rights attorney Bobbie Anne Flower Cox, has vowed to appeal. Ms. Cox called the June 18 ruling in Marjorie Byrnes v. Andrea Stewart-Cousins,“wholly unprecedented.”…