(2012 FR thread)US Court Strikes Down Michigan Affirmative Action Ban
Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 10/14/2013 11:00:34 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
From the racial makeup of University of California classrooms to the number of minority contractors working on BART projects, California's 17-year ban on affirmative action programs has indelibly marked the nation's largest state.
But now the debate over whether that experiment has caused more harm than good will take a back seat to a larger national question: Are laws such as California's affirmative-action ban, Proposition 209, unconstitutional, and should be overturned?
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a challenge to Michigan's Proposal 2, a 2006 voter-approved law that mirrored Proposition 209 by barring the use of racial and gender preferences in public programs such as university
Although the justices specifically are reviewing a federal appeals court ruling invalidating Michigan's law, California's 1996 version is front and center in the case. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1997 upheld Proposition 209, as has the California Supreme Court...
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Yeah, like the Affirmative Action ban has really had an effect in California.
At least 75% of immigrants are eligible for affirmative action.
Affirmative action= anti white racism. Just listen to the AA promoters and you will hear it
I hear the people who run Facebook are racists. Their workforce is not 38% Hispanic which is California's Hispanic population. When is the EEOC going to crack gown on those Silicon Valley racists?
(Yes 38% includes babies and grandmas and the Hispanic population is a younger population but who cares)
Why is it allowed by law that the bell curves for intelligence are shifted left or right at all for certain races in this country? Why are bell curves for any trait even allowed to exist? Are we not a nation predicated on the belief that all people are created equal? If these inherently unfair and racist bell curves will not voluntarily desist in the evil they visit upon our nation, is it not the duty of the courts to eradicate them?
The courts, had the Founders not been racists, would have ruled long ago that college admissions would purposefully favor groups of statistically low intelligence and academic diligence. Superior grades and graduation rates would be mandated as well. Hopefully our current Supreme Court, under the influence of an Executive of high moral principles, will right these grievous wrongs.
Funny how the liberals don’t care about this LAW OF THE LAND that was proposed by the people, voted on by the people, and passed into law by the people.
Arguments begin at approximately 1PM.
ah someone else has notice....WHEW!
if it werent got affirmative action the state gubment wouldnt take any action at all.....
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