Prop 2

VICTORY! AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS AGAIN LEGAL IN MICHIGAN! RALLY & MARCH Friday, December 7 Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor Reinstate Affirmative Action Programs NOW at ALL Michigan Universities! Sign the Petition! On November 15th the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Proposition 2 unconstitutional in the case brought by BAMN (The Coalition to Defend [...]

Press Release 11/15/2012: BAMN HAILS SIXTH CIRCUIT DECISION STRIKING DOWN MICHIGAN’S BAN ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION CASE HEADED TO U.S. SUPREME COURT: BAMN to argue for overturn of California’s Prop 209, Michigan’s Prop 2, and similar anti-affirmative-action state ballot initiatives before High Court Sixth Circuit ruling 11/15/2012 (PDF) BAMN brief to Sixth Circuit 10/25/2011 (PDF) The entire [...]

High school and college students rallied outside the courthouse on March 7th and then filled both the courtroom and an overflow room as BAMN attorney George Washington argued for the overturn of Prop 2, the ban on affirmative action in Michigan. On the occasion of the court proceedings, Black Agenda Radio interviewed both George Washington [...]

Michigan Students Travel to Cincinnati to Support Affirmative Action at 6th Circuit Court of Appeals On Wednesday, March 7, 2012, a 15-judge en banc panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in their review of the 6th Circuit ruling last summer that Proposal 2, the ban on affirmative action in Michigan, is unconstitutional. George Washington, attorney for [...]

Middle school, high school and college students filled the court Monday, February 13, to demand that Latina/o, black and Native American students have an equal right to attend the University of California. “Proposition 209 has created a New Jim Crow regime in California, in which the state denies equal access to its best public universities [...]

All Out to Cincinnati on March 7th! On March 7th at 1pm in Cincinnati,Ohio the full panel of 17 Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals judges will review their peers’ ruling that the ban on race-conscious admissions in Michigan is illegal and that affirmative action must be restored. The presence of hundreds of affirmative action supporters inside and [...]

Say No to the New Jim Crow! Realize Dr. King’s Dream in Michigan! Day of Action to Defend Affirmative Action Rally & March November 17 at 12Noon Gather on the UM Diag Increase Black, Latina/o, Native American and Other Underrepresented Minority Student Enrollment Now! In-state Tuition for Michigan’s Undocumented Students & Pass the DREAM Act [...]

Eight amicus (“friend of the Court”) briefs have been filed in support of the BAMN legal challenge to Prop 2. Briefs were filed by the following parties:  1) The Michigan Civil Rights Commission, (2) Committee of Law Professors and Constitutional Historians, (3) California Social Science Researchers and Admissions Experts; (4) the cities of Oakland and San Francisco and the counties [...]

Excerpts From the Brief Yesterday, BAMN’s legal team at Scheff, Washington & Driver filed the legal brief in defense of our victory last summer to overturn Prop 2 and restore affirmative action in Michigan. The brief was a response to the attempt by the opponents of affirmative action (lead by Michigan’s Attorney General Bill Scheutte) to reverse our [...]