Women Vote Secured: Supreme Court Upholds 19th Amendment
The Supreme Court shot down a direct challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment in Leser v. Garnett, securing women's suffrage as an unassailable constitutional right. This decisive ruling quelled decades of legal uncertainty and ensured that no state could later strip away the franchise granted by the amendment.
February 27, 1922
104 years ago
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