[But the ACLU argues that ending assistance to women and minorities will open the door to the discrimination that affirmative action was intended to remedy. In 1978,] The City of Los Angeles gave 2 percent of its contracts to minority and women business enterprises. Sacramento gave zero percent. Now those numbers are up to 10-15 percent, ... It (Proposition 209) is really resegregation in California.
[It is] not a matter for individual states to attempt to formulate their own rules and procedures. School teachers and doctors are not substitutes for INS agents.
As it stands now, close to 8 million voters could be at the mercy of these faulty, unreliable and decertified machines. Californians deserve to go to the polls knowing that their vote will be counted, not discarded.
I think the homeless have just found shelter with the federal courts. I think it's a brave and courageous decision.
I've seen them in the morning, or when they go up. I've seen them really low when they first take off and they're just a few hundred feet above you.
The government is turning justice on its head by keeping an innocent man in jail.
These are schools where a dead rat can sit decomposing from the beginning of the year in a gymnasium and no one removes it,
This is a military and executive scandal.
Thousands of students are placed on uneven playing fields,
We know there are 26 other states looking at resolutions or legislation like Prop. 209. Certainly this is a case that the Supreme Court ought to have the final word on.
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