The U.S. Supreme Court will likely decide soon whether Michigan voters violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment when they passed a ballot initiative banning the use of racial preferences by public employers and universities. Many of us are worried that the court will uphold the ban because Chief Justice John Roberts has stated that the “way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”
These words have a certain ring to them, but he is wrong. The Supreme Court should strike down the Michigan ban.
