The Chronicle: Campaign to Limit Affirmative Action in Missouri Wins a Legal Victory
A state court judge handed a major victory on Monday to advocates of a proposed referendum to amend the Missouri Constitution to ban public colleges and other state agencies from using affirmative-action preferences.
In a case focused on the wording of the proposed referendum, Judge Richard G. Callahan of the State Circuit Court for Cole County rejected as “insufficient and unfair” the summary language that Missouri’s secretary of state had placed on the measure over the objections of its backers. As required under state law, Judge Callahan drafted and certified new summary language for the measure, which is proposed for this November’s ballot, and the language that he used was welcomed by the measure’s proponents.
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