High court upholds Mich affirmative action ban

*There’s an important semantic issue at play in this story.Technically, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an election, because it was an election, not because of the result. Michigan voters decided to ban race in admissions decisions. The Supreme Court said it can do nothing to change that. The result, though, is the same. The ban on Affirmative Action continues in Michigan. Only Justices Sotomayor and Ginsburg voted against upholding the election. VL

By Associated Press/Washington Post

The justices said in a 6-2 ruling that Michigan voters had the right to change their state constitution in 2006 to prohibit public colleges and universities from taking account of race in admissions decisions. The justices said that a lower federal court was wrong to set aside the change as discriminatory.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Michigan’s ban on using race as a factor in college admissions despite one justice’s impassioned dissent that accused the court of wanting to wish away racial inequality.

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