The Tennessee bill to ban race or sex preferences in government hiring, which we previously reported on here, is dead. Readers will recall that the bill was amended at last minute to prohibit race preferences granted solely on race or … Continue reading
In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, police monitored residents of Oceania for evidence of “thoughtcrime.” In Pippen v. Iowa, a case that takes the concept of unintentional discrimination to dangerous new levels, that concept doesn’t seem too far away. In … Continue reading
Today we learned that the Sacramento Superior Court sustained the government’s demurrer in Connerly v. State of California. This case challenged Government Code Section 8252 as facially unconstitutional, because it requires members of the Citizens Redistricting Commission to appoint officers to serve … Continue reading
The Florida Department of Education and Virginia State Board of Education recently approved strategic plans that establish different race-based academic achievement goals for K-12 students. As we’ve explained before, assigning different scholastic targets based on students’ races is not only … Continue reading
Individuals should not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Most children learn that famous line from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech at an early age. Unfortunately, … Continue reading
PLF filed the next round of legal documents in Connerly v. California, et al. today. First, some background. In 2008, California voters created the California Citizens Redistricting Commission. The Commission is made of 14 private citizens who are tasked with … Continue reading
At PLF we believe that equality means treating everybody equally–that the government should not treat people differently because of something as genetically insignificant as skin color. We envision a society where everyone is equal under the law. Under this vision, universities would … Continue reading