Yesterday a Sacramento County Superior Court judge ruled that a legislative attempt to reinstate race- and sex-based discrimination in violation of California state law is unconstitutional.
Proposition 209, approved in 1996 by 54 percent of California voters (by county), outlaws skin color and sex preferences in public hiring and admissions. Since then, various groups have tried to overturn the law. Most recently, the former Governor Gray Davis signed a bill in 2003 that would have allowed the state to — get this — appeal to “international treaty provisions” to discriminate on the basis of skin color and sex, despite state law and federal constitutional prohibitions against it. The judge said no go.
Read more at the Sacramento Bee (reg. req.). Also read this press release from the Pacific Legal Foundation.
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