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"Jerry Brown calls Prop. 209 unconstitutional"

"Jerry Brown calls Prop. 209 unconstitutional": Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, "The 1996 ballot measure that outlawed preferential treatment for women and minorities in government programs is unconstitutional because it prohibits all affirmative action and fosters the discrimination it was supposed to eliminate, Attorney General Jerry Brown told the state Supreme Court on Wednesday. Brown's opinion, which the court requested in considering a lawsuit that two white-owned contractors brought against San Francisco, could reopen the legal debate on Proposition 209. A federal appeals court upheld the measure in 1997, but the state's high court has never ruled on its validity."

And The New York Times reports today that "Attorney General Challenges Anti-Bias Law in California."

Full post as published by How Appealing on April 23, 2009 (boomark / email).