Affirmative action and the law

Los Angeles Times Editorial
Does the Constitution bar voters from doing away with racial preferences? We don't think so.

November 30, 2012

As the Supreme Court mulls whether the U.S. Constitution prohibits state universities from taking race into account in admissions decisions, a federal appeals court has moved in a very different direction. It recently held that, far from forbidding affirmative action, the Constitution prevents a state's voters from doing away with it.

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