The women behind SCotUS AA decision. Separately, Anthony KENNEDY is a“frighteningly bizarre justice"
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/meet-women-supreme-courts-controversial-affirmative-action-decision/story?id=23477918&singlePage=true
[font size=5]Meet the Women Behind the Supreme Court’s Controversial Affirmative Action Decision[/font]
.... (Jennifer) Gratz was denied admittance to the state’s flagship university, the University of Michigan, in 1995. She sued, claiming that the school’s affirmative action policy -– a point-based system that automatically awarded minority students one-fifth of the 100 points required for undergraduate admission -– amounted to racial discrimination. It violated the Equal Protection Clause, her lawyers said, and was therefore unconstitutional. ....
So Gratz launched the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, a ballot measure that banned “preferential treatment ... on the basis of race” at public universities and other public institutions.
But despite the rancor, the MCRI, or “Prop. 2” –- now almost as controversial as California’s “Prop. 8” –- was voted into law in November 2006 by 58 percent of the electorate. ....
You could call (Shanta) Driver the anti-Gratz. She’s the head of By Any Means Necessary: The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, and she argued against Prop. 2 at the Supreme Court. ....
“I do think she’s racist,” Driver told ABC News. ....
This country, she points out, is quickly becoming a majority minority nation, yet minorities are still under-represented in prestigious institutions. They also bear the burden of ambassadorship –- the feeling that they’re representing not only themselves, but their entire race. ....
“The Supreme Court is putting their heads in the sand,” said (By Any Means Necessary attorney spokesperson George) Washington, who called Justice Anthony Kennedy (author of the majority opinion) a “frighteningly bizarre justice.” ....
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