High court to look at Michigan ban on preferences in university admissions
By Bill Mears, CNN Supreme Court Producer
Washington (CNN) - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to confront another high-profile challenge to affirmative action in college admissions.
The justices will decide the constitutionality of a voter referendum in Michigan banning race- and sex-based discrimination or preferential treatment in public university admission decisions.
The high court is currently deciding a separate challenge to admissions policies at the University of Texas, which did not involve a voter referendum.
A federal appeals court last year concluded the affirmative action ban, which Michigan voters passed in a 2006 referendum, violated the U.S. Constitution's equal protection laws.
Appeals court strikes down Michigan's affirmative action ban
It was the latest step in a legal and political battle over whether the state's colleges can use race and gender as a factor in choosing which students to admit. The ban's opponents say classroom diversity remains a necessary government role.
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Sorry we already have too many white people.... that's OK?
But, sorry we already have too many blacks... that's not OK?
Who decides what's too many?
So if they can use race as a factor for admissions.... then can it work both ways? Can a college decide they don't want to admit you because of your Race? Be it white, black or whatever?