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Judge Upholds Michigan?s Prop. 2!

BAMN and friends never abandoned their effort to find some court, somewhere, that would tell the citizens of Michigan that they lack the authority to prohibit their state, through a constitutional amendment, from discriminating on the basis of race.

Now they have failed one more time.

A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionally of Proposal 2, the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative that banned race and gender affirmative action in university admissions and government and public school hiring and contracting

The litigation, however, will, of course, continue.

?We?re appealing immediately,? said Detroit lawyer George Washington. ?We don?t think in the 21 Century that laws should be passed that are intended to have the effect of excluding black and Latino students from the universities in this state.

This is probably a good thing. If these plaintiffs weren?t appealing they might be spending their money on something that could do real damage.

UPDATE [8:45 p.m.]

Read Judge Lawson?s opinion here, and the Center for Individual Rights press release here. Terry Pell, Michael Rossman, and the other attorneys and staff of the Center for Individual Rights deserve to be commended for their victory.

Full post as published by Discriminations on March 18, 2008 (boomark / email).