The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to a controversial California law that ends affirmative action programs in the state. The justices, without comment, turned away arguments by a coalition of civil rights groups and let stand a ruling that said Proposition 209 fails to violate anybody’s constitutional rights.
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