California lawmakers try to legalize discrimination again

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Californians cast their ballots in November 2020 on perhaps the most-watched state initiative in America that year: Proposition 16.

The referendum sought to repeal Proposition 209, a 1996 initiative based on the 1964 Civil Rights Act that amended California’s Constitution to prohibit government institutions from discriminating on the basis of race, sex, or ethnicity in their hiring practices.

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