Episode
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Equal Rights Amendment
Overview
There’s still nothing in our constitution that explicitly prohibits sex discrimination. John Oliver talks about how to fix that.
Details
- Series
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 2019-06-09
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Equal Rights Amendment is Episode 14 in Season 6 of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. It aired on 2019-06-09. The runtime is 30 min.
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