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Alameda County Clings to Discriminatory Legacy for Government Contracts

October 26, 2023 3:58 pmOctober 26, 2023 3:58 pm

Frederick Douglass, the American abolitionist and freedom fighter, fought tirelessly for equality under the law. In an 1857 speech condemning the Supreme Court’s thoroughly racist and ahistorical Dred Scott decision, he called for an America that keeps the promise stated...

The Legislature is Trying Again to Gut California’s Prohibitions on Public Discrimination

September 8, 2023 9:17 amSeptember 9, 2023 7:09 am

In the 1960s Martin Luther King dreamed of a color blind society in which people would be judged by the content of their character not the color of their skin. But today liberals are fixated on race and devoted to...

U.S. Supreme Court on a Hot Streak

July 4, 2023 6:24 amJuly 4, 2023 6:38 am

Trigger Alert: For those of you who feel that the American judicial system—the U.S. Supreme Court in particular, is there to reflect prevailing public sentiment, create law to support your world view, and/or take your feelings into account, this...

California’s Major Role In The Birth, And Death, Of Affirmative Action

June 29, 2023 12:58 pmJune 29, 2023 12:58 pm

The Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina ruling by the United States Supreme Court on Wednesday, in which it was ruled that affirmative action programs in college admissions processes are unconstitutional, capped off a 45-year legal battle over...

Another Unconstitutional Racial Quota Bites the Dust, but May Not Be Gone for Good

October 24, 2022 7:54 amOctober 24, 2022 8:26 am

Just in time for Halloween, the State of California has properly dealt with zombie legislation. The Governor recently signed AB 1604, “The Upward Mobility Act,” a bill that attempted to bring a racial quota back from the dead when the...

Bill To Give Additional Education Funds To Lowest Performing Subgroup Halted Over Prop 209 Violations

September 3, 2022 2:30 amSeptember 2, 2022 9:35 pm

A bill proposing to give additional funding to students in the lowest performing subgroup was pulled only hours before voting ended early Thursday due to Governor Gavin Newsom dropping support over concerns that it would violate state law under Proposition...

CA Senate Forced to Significantly Amend AB 1604 Over Attempt to Institute Racial Preferences

August 23, 2022 11:12 am

Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, in collaboration with the Pacific Legal Foundation, has successfully forced the California State Senate to significantly amend Assembly Bill 1604 so that the amended version complies with the State Constitution, and specifically the constitutional ban on racial...