Taylor Swift is a genius songwriter and brilliant businesswoman, but she should go back to school and learn a little about the United States Constitution before endorsing a presidential candidate who opposes women’s equality. Too much is at stake for any American Girl to support a candidate who opposes basic equality for half the population.

Don’t believe me that Kamala Harris opposes women’s equality? I filed a federal lawsuit to validate the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) after it was ratified in January 2020 because the Trump Administration blocked it from being added to our Constitution as the 28th Amendment. The ERA states: “Equality of rights shall not be denied or abridged … On account of sex.” Who could possibly be opposed, right?

Donald Trump opposed my lawsuit and another one that was later filed by several states in a different federal court — so I voted for Biden/Harris in 2020 because they said they supported the ERA, but when Biden got into office, he blocked the ERA the same way Trump did, and fought against both lawsuits, making the same arguments Trump had made. He and Harris are still blocking the ERA today while insisting that women must vote blue.

Mind you, voting red doesn’t make sense either because Trump did the same thing. But Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that if elected, he will unblock the ERA and direct the United States Archivist to put it in the Constitution. Since he’s no longer running but has been promised a leadership role in a Trump Administration, he may be able to help. The only thing we know for sure is that a Harris presidency is a death knell for women’s equality.

If forced to talk about this, and she should be, Harris will say the ERA can’t be added to the Constitution without an act of Congress because its ratification deadline expired years ago, but the American Bar Association, the American Constitution Society and most constitutional scholars say the deadline is not valid and that we don’t need an act of Congress. In fact, as the Biden Administration recently conceded during oral argument before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, Congress has no authority to take any action to help with the ERA. All we need is for Biden/Harris to unblock the ERA and put it in the Constitution where it belongs — but they refuse.

Taylor Swift has no idea about any of this because mainstream media refuses to write about how the Biden Administration is blocking the ERA. And good luck finding a story explaining that if Biden hadn’t been blocking the ERA in 2022 when Dobbs was decided, the Supreme Court would not have had authority to overturn Roe v. Wade because there would have been a textual basis in the Constitution to protect women’s right to choose. All Democrat-driven propaganda aimed at the women’s vote says women should vote blue because of abortion. None of it mentions that we wouldn’t be in this mess if Biden/Harris hadn’t blocked the ERA.

The Democrats don’t want women talking about the ERA because they can’t defend their position.

There’s no Phyllis Schlafly around anymore making silly claims about why it’s good for women to be second-class citizens. Women today are too smart for that nonsense, and they’re fed up with unequal pay and extremely high rates of rape, domestic violence and femicide. Even in this bluest of states where we have a female governor and female attorney general, the levels of abuse are through the roof. As the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts said in a ruling last month, the number one crime in every city and town in the Commonwealth and in every district court across the state is domestic violence. The reason for these shocking data is that Women are not constitutionally entitled to equal protection of the laws that are supposed to protect them from abuse because the ERA is not in the Constitution.

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I have to believe that Taylor Swift would care about this if she knew about it, even though as a wealthy woman, she is better insulated from some of the slings and arrows that come with inequality. Many of her songs reflect thoughtful appreciation for the way girls and women suffer, but they lack depth of understanding about why the United States Constitution is the driving force behind the problem. Swift is not alone. Ninety percent of people in America know nothing about women’s second-class citizenship or the ERA. They know women are in trouble, but they don’t know why because both parties make a fortune by keeping women’s inequality invisible

With a little luck, someone will send this column to Taylor Swift, and she will be brave enough to use her platform to help. If it were me I would blackmail the Democratic Party by threatening not to vote for Harris unless Joe Biden puts the ERA in the Constitution before Election Day. Swift might not be into blackmail, but she could at least do a quick tour in October — an epilogue to her Eras tour but this time she can name it after the only “era” that truly matters to women: the Equal Rights Amendment.