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CBS News The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in an affirmative action case. It s a challenge to a Michigan law that says race cannot be a factor in college admissions. The Court in the past has looked skep stanley cup quencher tically at using racial preferences in college admissions, but it has stopped short of outlawing it completely. Now the justices are going to have to decide whether affirmative action bans passed by voters in states across the country violate the Constitution.How affirmative action divides two justices stanley cup After the Supreme Court refused in 2003 to end affirmative action programs at the University of Michigan Law School voters approved Proposal 2, amending the state constitution to prohibit admissions programs that give preferential treatment to or discriminate against people based on their race. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said voters wanted to take race out of decision making. It s an expression that in Michigan we think it s wrong, fundamentally wrong, to treat people differently based on their race or the color of their skin, said Schuette. Michigan is not alone. Five other states, California, Washington, Arizona, Nebraska, Oklahoma, have similar laws outlawing the use of racial preferences. However, supporters of affirmative action say Proposal 2 amounts to racial discrimination, by rigging the political process against minorities. The federal appeals court agreed and struc stanley cup k down Proposal 2 sayi Jbsh Obama Speech to Lay Out Job Growth Plan
Five Senate Democrats -- Sheldon Whitehouse, Dianne Feinstein, Ted Kennedy, Russ Feingold and Chuck Schumer -- have sent a letter to the Justice Department stanley mug asking Attorney General Mukasey to address states failure to comply with voter registration regulations.Section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act NVRA is known the motor voter law because it requires voter registration materials to be made available at local department of motor vehicles offices. But it also requires that the materials be distributed in public assistance offices, where people apply for programs like Medicaid or food stamps.Democrats allege that states have not been complying with that part of the law and that the Justice Department, which is responsible, which is responsible for enforcement, ha stanley canada s not addressed the problem. Voter registration at state public assistance agencies declined by 79 percent between 1995-96 and 2005-06 but Justice has brought only one lawsuit to enforce this provision of the statute in the last eight years, Democrats say.The result, according to the senators letter stanley canada , is disenfranchisement of low-income voters: Non-compliance with Section 7 is depriving low-income citizens of an important opportunity to participate in the democratic process. The Crypt has requested comment from the Justice Department and will update this post when we get it. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none;