California Attorney General Says Anti-Affirmative Action Measure Is Unconstitutional

by E Wayne Ross on April 23, 2009

The Chronicle News Blog: California Attorney General Says Anti-Affirmative Action Measure Is Unconstitutional

San Francisco — A landmark ballot measure banning affirmative action in public hiring, contracting, and college admissions, approved by California voters in 1996, violates the U.S. Constitution’s equal-protection guarantees, Attorney General Jerry Brown said on Wednesday in a letter to the state’s Supreme Court.