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High court stops short of ending racial quotas and preferences

By Michael Barone
Published April 23, 2014 4:00am ET
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High court stops short of ending racial quotas and preferences
Fifty-eight percent of Michigan voters in 2006 voted to prohibit racial quotas and preferences in admission to state colleges and universities. (Thinkstock) | Fuse

Schuette v. BAMN shouldn’t have been a hard case. The Fourteenth Amendment outlaws racial discrimination. Racial quotas and preferences are, by definition, racial discrimination.

Fifty-eight percent of Michigan voters in 2006 voted to prohibit racial quotas and preferences in admission to state colleges and universities.

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