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supreme court. and let s start with the ban on affirmative action that took place an hour ago, and tell us how that played out. well, it was a 6-2 vote, and nine justices and elena kagan sat this out, because she worked on the issue in the justice department, but the issue is whether constitutionally michigan voters could ban affirmative action or whether it put minority members in michigan at a disadvantage and whether it made them jump a higher hurdle to change the state law than somebody who for example who wanted to change the admission policies on the legacies or the grade point averages or something else. the court rejected the challenge today, and said that michigan did not violate the constitution when it banned affirmative action and justice kennedy who wrote the lead opinion in the case said that the mind does not presume that some subjects are too divisive or profound for public debate. it was the supreme court s rule that set it in motion in 2003 when it u ....

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