What is Justice Ginsburg's message to young feminists? They should care care that the Constitution lacks an Equal Rights Amendment and makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women

"Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg expressed concerns about a worst-case scenario–the overruling of Roe v. Wade–and the lack of support for the Equal Rights Amendment in an interview published on Sunday. . . .Ginsburg was also asked about her message to a new generation of feminists who look to her as a role model. In her answer, she said women should work for things they care about and expressed concern that young women don’t seem to care that the Constitution lacks an Equal Rights Amendment, something she and many other young women supported in the 1970s.
“One thing that concerns me,” Ginsburg said, “is that today’s young women don’t seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women. They know there are no closed doors anymore, and they may take for granted the rights that they have.”
Rosen also asked Ginsburg to name the worst ruling the current court has produced. Ginsburg responded: “If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be. So that’s number one on my list.”" More.

Originally posted in ABA Journal News Sept 29, 2014 by Debra Cassens Weiss

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Equal Protection, indigents and the FTC's Red Flags Rule

Lerajjareanra-o-kel-ly, v. Schow,(Idaho App.)
Prisoners - Statute generally requiring indigent prisoners to make at least partial payment of filing fees did not violate equal protection.
In a matter of first impression, the Court of Appeals of Idaho has held that the statutory scheme generally requiring indigent prisoners to make at least partial payment of filing fees, but providing for waiver of such fees in certain cases for indigent non-prisoners, had a rational basis, which was legislature's intent to reduce frivolous prisoner litigation. Thus, the statute governing indigent prisoner filing fees did not violate equal protection.

ABA sues the FTC regarding “Red Flags Rule”
The “Red Flags Rule,” mandated by the 2003 Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, requires that “financial institutions” and “creditors” implement programs to detect, identify and respond to activities that signal possible identity theft. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has stated that the term “creditor,” as defined by the act, covers all entities—including lawyers—that regularly provide services or goods before seeking payment. On August 27, the ABA filed a complaint asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to bar the FTC from applying its “Red Flags Rule,” intended to prevent identity theft, to practicing lawyers.

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