Backdoor discrimination bill halted in CA Senate
As reported here previously, ACA 7 was a proposed CA Constitutional Amendment that would've nullified the CA Constitution's anti-discrimination clause. While it gained traction with far-left legislators, the bill died in the CA Senate. Gail Heriot reports on Instapundit.
As of last Thursday, we won the battle against California’s Assembly Constitutional Amendment 7 (ACA7) at least for this year and possibly for much longer. A few weeks ago, I predicted that ACA7 would fail to pass the Cal Senate before the deadline for the November ballot, but now it’s official.
ACA7 was/is an effort to nullify the following words in the California Constitution: “The State shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education or public contracting.”
ACA7 was/is a bit tricky. Instead of a straight repeal of those words (which had been put in the state constitution in 1996 by Proposition 209), it purported to “merely” give the governor the power to grant EXCEPTIONS. But the exceptions would almost certainly have swallowed the rule. Indeed, that was the whole idea. California progressives have been gunning for Proposition 209 since the day after Election Day 1996. ACA7 was/is just the latest effort.
ACA7 had passed the Cal Assembly back in the autumn, but it needed to pass the Cal Senate. The deadline for inclusion on the November ballot was June 27, and ACA7’s chief sponsor has now let it be known that the Senate was not going to pass it and that it is dead at least for this year. Like any legislation, it can always be brought up later, but the next scheduled election isn’t till 2026.
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