[NOTE: This post has been UPDATED]
Amazing! “The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (I am tempted to say even the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals),” I point out on Minding The Campus this morning,
has once again recognized that treating people without regard to race does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. In an opinion released April 2, a three-judge panel reaffirmed in no uncertain terms a 1997 Ninth Circuit decision holding that “[a]s a matter of ‘conventional’ equal protection analysis, there is simply no doubt that Proposition 209 is constitutional.” The Pacific Legal Foundation, which successfully argued the case, deserves the congratulations and gratitude of all those who believe in colorblind equal opportunity.
Read the whole post here.
UPDATE
Those of you who followed my instructions advice and read my post on Minding The Campus this morning now need to return — and those of you who heedlessly ignored that order suggestion need to hasten over there for the first time — because it has just been updated with a response to some absurd comments from the BAMN lawyer who argued the Ninth Circuit case (and the virtually identical one still awaiting a decision in the Sixth Circuit).
