In California, leftists are coming back for a third bite at the rotten apple of racial preferences. Having been resoundingly defeated in an affirmative action referendum in 2020, the establishment is trying to reintroduce this pernicious type of racism through the back door.

Instead of an up-front referendum reinstating racial preferences, which they know they will lose, the progressives of the once Golden State this time are trying to let the governor find exceptions that will gut the ban on affirmative action.