Professor Katherine Macfarlane spoke with USA Today for the article “New York’s Prop. 1 is a ‘backstop’ to protect rights, expert says | Fact check.”
Proposition 1, also known as the Equal Rights Amendment, is a proposed state constitutional amendment that would expand anti-discrimination protections for certain groups, including immigrants and those who have changed their gender identity.
Macfarlane says “Whenever rights are protected in the constitution, it’s harder to then pass a statute due to political whims to weaken them.”