California lawmakers try to legalize discrimination againBy Jon Miltimore
March 5, 2024
Californians cast their ballots in November 2020 on perhaps the most-watched state initiative in America that year: Proposition 16.
The referendum sought to repeal Proposition 209, a 1996 initiative based on the 1964 Civil Rights Act that amended California’s Constitution to prohibit government institutions from discriminating on the basis of race, sex, or ethnicity in their hiring practices.
“The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group, on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting,” Proposition 209 read.
Though the California Senate in June 2020 had voted to strike these words from California’s Constitution, Golden State voters overwhelmingly rejected the proposal (56–44%).
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