AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION RULING DISMAYS CLINTON ADMINISTRATION.Byline: Michael J. Sniffen Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A senior Justice Department official expressed disappointment Thursday in a court ruling upholding California's ban on affirmative action affirmative action, in the United States, programs to overcome the effects of past societal discrimination by allocating jobs and resources to members of specific groups, such as minorities and women. and doubted that the administration's views on that remedy for discrimination would be altered. In a 3-0 ruling Tuesday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a judge's order that blocked prompt enforcement of California's ban, known as Proposition 209. Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain Diarmuid Fionntain O'Scannlain (born 1937, New York City) is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. His chambers are located in Portland, Oregon. wrote for the court that the U.S. Constitution ``barely permits'' preferential programs and that Proposition 209 is a neutral law that violates no one's right to equal treatment. The Justice Department had argued in a friend-of-the-court brief that the voter-approved ban would violate the equal protection clause The Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, provides that "no state shall… deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. of the Constitution. ``As a matter of law, the Justice Department is disappointed with the contrary ruling of the three-judge court,'' acting Deputy Attorney General Seth Waxman told a news conference. Waxman was filling in for Attorney General Janet Reno Janet Reno (born July 21, 1938) was the first and to date only female Attorney General of the United States (1993–2001). She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on March 11. , who was out of town. Proposition 209, approved by 54 percent of California voters in November, amends AMENDS. A satisfaction, given by a wrong doer to the party injured for a wrong committed. 1 Lilly's Reg. 81. 2. By statute 24 Geo. II. c. 44, in England, and by similar statutes in some of the United States, justices of the peace, upon being notified of an the state's constitution to forbid racial and gender preferences in state and local government employment, contracting and education. The measure's scope is sharply disputed, but it would eliminate a variety of programs, including hiring goals for minorities and women in state employment and consideration of race in public college admissions. |
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