SB 185 Public postsecondary education (allows race-based admissions; anti-Prop 209)

Around the Capitol ^ | July 5, 2011

[newzjunkey]

SB 185 was introduced by Sen. Ed Hernandez (D-Los Angeles)

...This bill would authorize the University of California and the California State University to consider race, gender, ethnicity, and national origin, along with other relevant factors, in undergraduate and graduate admissions...

The bill would require the trustees, and request the regents, to report in writing to the Legislature and the Governor by November 1, 2012, on the implementation of the bill. The bill would require these reports to include information relative to the number of students admitted, disaggregated by race, gender, ethnicity, national origin, geographic origin, and household income, and compared to the prior 2 years of admissions

[newzjunkey]

I heard about this bill on a radio news break this morning. It passed through the Assembly Higher Education committee 5-3 on to the full Assembly next.

It already passed the Senate 22-14 on June 1st.

In 1996, CA voters passed Prop 209 banning race and other criteria used in admissions for higher education.

We need to pressure Assemblymembers to vote NO.

[wac3rd]

The ongoing crusade of appeasing Mexico and its expatriated and mainly illegal citizens via US tax dollars is ongoing in the Reconquista movement.

Not only do you pay for it, they want preferred admission for their people.

CA is so, so screwed.

[RightOnline]

Note to the drooling idiot, “Senator” Hernandez:

This is NOT what equality is, you moron. Now leave....go home to Me-hee-co.

[RightOnline]

Note to the drooling idiot, “Senator” Hernandez:

This is NOT what equality is, you moron. Now leave....go home to Meh-hee-co.

[Ingtar]

LOL

I wonder how long it took them to figure out to use “disaggregated” for the more commonly used “segregated.”

[businessprofessor]

I thought that Proposition 209 was part of the California Constitution and could not be contradicted by legislation.

[fifedom]

I thought that Proposition 209 was part of the California Constitution and could not be contradicted by legislation.

It is part of the constitution:

http://vote96.sos.ca.gov/BP/209.htm

PROHIBITION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION OR PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT BY STATE AND OTHER PUBLIC ENTITIES. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.

But I think I know what is going on. They want to kill this like they killed 187. Most people think 187 lost in Federal court. Actually a low-level judge ruled against it and the Democrat Gray Davis refused to appeal.

When Prop. 209 was tried the governor and AG again refused to defend it but the proponents stepped in and defended it and won.

With Prop 208 both Arnold and Jerry Brown refused to defend it so again the proponents stepped in. But this time the homosexual judge Vaughn Walker ruled that the proponents did not have standing--only the Governor and Attorney General can appeal.

So I think this is just another bite at the apple. When this passes, Moonbeam and Camala Harris will refuse to challenge it in court and they will get a leftist judge to say no one else has standing.

Therefore 209 is still on the books but the people who can enforce it will refuse to do it. Just another day in the California banana republic.

[newzjunkey]

They've tried twice to get 209 shot down in state court.

In '96 a federal judge blocked it and a 3 judge panel of the 9th Circus overturned that ruling.

The Supreme Court of CA has seen it twice, most recently in Aug 2010 where they found it constitutional for a second time. The first time the decision was unanimous, in 2010 it was a 6-1 majority.

They'll keep attacking until they can get it overturned.