Virginia Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares has withdrawn the state from a lawsuit seeking to compel the federal government to recognize the Commonwealth's 2020 ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment and place the text in the US Constitution, according to the Associated Press.

Miyares in a Friday court filing requested that the Commonwealth be removed as a party to the lawsuit, which was backed by his predecessor — former Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring — and is in the appeals process before the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.