The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has denied BAMN’s and the Democrats’ request for an injunction to prevent the citizens of Michigan from voting on whether they want to preserve or abolish racial preferences.
This decision continues the unbroken string of court defeats for BAMN and its Democratic allies, but it is unlikely to deter them from continuing efforts to keep the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative off the ballot, no doubt in part because they would rather debate petition signing procedures before judges than the merits of racial preferences before voters. Indeed, Shanta Driver, a BAMN official, has announced that BAMN “will now ask the appeals court for an expedited hearing on whether the initiative should be removed from the ballot because of systematic fraud.”
John, I forgot how much I enjoyed this site. What are your thoughts on referendums in general? I notice California puts a lot of things to referendums but other states rarely do. Heard one of my local reps (Virginia) say the other day, “you can’t govern from a referendum.”
Thought that was an interesting quote.
Thanks for compliment. Re referenda, I dunno. I probably feel about them the way Clinton said he felt about abortions — that they should be safe, legal, and rare. California, I think, makes referenda too easy; Virginia makes them virtually impossible. Somewhere in between seems about right.