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DISPATCHES | Issue: "Walk the Talk" November 15, 1997

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"A green light"

California's voter-passed ban on race- and sex-based preferences jumped over its last legal hurdle. Without comment, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a constitutional challenge to the measure, known as Proposition 209. "This is a green light to all the other states who want to copy Proposition 209," said California businessman Ward Connerly, who led last year's effort to pass the initiative. Similar measures are expected to be on state ballots next year in Colorado, Florida, Ohio, and Washington.

Wrong man for rights job

Saying, "It's time to take a stand against ... policies that are dividing America and ripping us apart," Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) announced he would not support President Clinton's choice to head the Justice Department's civil-rights division. Mr. Hatch, whose committee must approve the nomination before it goes to the full Senate, said nominee Bill Lann Lee's defense of "constitutionally suspect ... public policies that ultimately sort citizens by race" makes him unfit for the job. "The assistant attorney general must be America's civil-rights law enforcer, not the civil-rights ombudsman for the political left," said Mr. Hatch. Like President Clinton, Mr. Lee advocates legal preferences based on race and sex. Meanwhile, the House Judiciary Committee voted to sidestep the politically explosive issue of preferences, delaying indefinitely any action on a bill that calls for ending federal "affirmative action" programs.

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