Once again federal judges have promoted activist causes rather than the law and the preservation of our political structure of government.
On July 1 a federal appeals court struck down Michigan’s Proposal 2, a constitutional amendment voted on by Michigan residents banning the discrimination of prospective students based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin.
The court majority said the amendment burdened racial minorities. Because universities weren’t allowed to let minorities take the easy way out under the proposal, they were placing “special burdens” on the groups.
To say that requiring minorities to have the same merit as the majority is a special burden is either completely absurd or inherently racist.
As the dissent aptly argued, “Proposal 2 is constitutional
under a traditional equal protection analysis,” noting the obvious — “it lacks a discriminatory