The Failure of Proposition 16: A Post-Election Analysis

Althea NagaiRacial Preferences

Many Biden Voters Voted No on Prop 16 California voters overwhelmingly voted for Joe Biden, 64% to 34%.1 But most voters also voted against Proposition 16, that sought to bring back the use of race, ethnicity, and gender in public university admissions, government hiring, and government contracting. Roughly 57% voted no on Prop 16; 43% voted yes.    Related posts: TESTIMONY OF ROGER CLEGG, PRESIDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL, CENTER FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY BEFORE THE U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS REGARDING THE PROPOSED EMPLOYMENT NON-DISCRIMINATION ACT Race, Ethnicity, and California Prop 16 Politicized external review panels as unguided “diversity” missiles: California …

Race, Ethnicity, and California Prop 16

CEO StaffRacial Preferences

California voters overwhelmingly voted for Joe Biden in the recent election, 64% to 34%. To the surprise of California’s elite, most also voted against Proposition 16, that would revise the state constitution and again allow the use of race and gender in university admissions, government hiring, and government contracting. Roughly 57% voted no on Prop 16, 43% voted yes. The following study is a statistical summary of county-level demographic data and a county’s support for Prop 16. It shows the following: • There was no correlation between proportion of Hispanics and votes for or against Prop 16 (p. 8). • Counties with greater percentages of …

CEO Condemns Appeals Court Ruling in Harvard Case

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The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) today criticized the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruling upholding Harvard’s use of racial and ethnic preferences in its undergraduate admissions. CEO urges the Supreme Court to now take the case. CEO Chairman Linda Chavez noted, “Data from Harvard’s own internal analysis of its admissions criteria suggest that low-income Asian American applicants with higher grades and test scores may have been excluded in favor of wealthier blacks and Hispanics. Though this ruling was predictable from the oral argument, we are hopeful the Supreme Court will make the right decision and strike …

New CEO Report: If California Restores Race Discrimination: Implications for Higher Education

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(Falls Church, VA) The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) today released a new report, If California Restores Race Discrimination: Implications for Higher Education, which demonstrates how race may once again dominate the college admissions process if voters adopt Proposition 16 on the ballot in California this November. Proposition 16 seeks to override a state constitutional ban on racial and ethnic preferences, adopted overwhelmingly by California voters in a 1996 ballot initiative. CEO’s report, available here, was written by research fellow Dr. Althea Nagai. The study concludes that when colleges use race as a factor in the admissions process, it is …

If California Restores Race Discrimination: Implications for Higher Education

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If California Restores Race Discrimination: Implications for Higher Education Related posts: New CEO Report: If California Restores Race Discrimination: Implications for Higher Education Politicized external review panels as unguided “diversity” missiles: California university administrators remain ultra-slow learners TESTIMONY OF ROGER CLEGG, PRESIDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL, CENTER FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY BEFORE THE U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS REGARDING THE PROPOSED EMPLOYMENT NON-DISCRIMINATION ACT We Need More Bills Like This

CEO press release on Title IX Regulations on Sexual Harassment

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The Center for Equal Opportunity is pleased to join other civil liberties and civil rights organizations in welcoming the effective date today of the new federal Department of Education rules for universities and K-12 schools to use in investigating and adjudicating accusations of student- on-student sexual harassment and assault. Adopted in May after a careful process that took more than two years and considered more than 124,000 comments on the proposed rules, the regulations will require educational institutions to act impartially and without bias or prejudgment and to use procedures including live hearings, cross-examination of all witnesses, and other procedures …

The Systemic Racism Trap

Linda ChavezCulture & Society, Uncategorized

by Linda Chavez, CEO Chairman Is America a deeply racist society, whose very institutions perpetuate the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow? Unfortunately, to answer “No” — even a qualified “No” — is becoming harder by the day. Since the horrific killing of George Floyd, millions have taken to the streets to protest not just police violence but to insist that systemic racism infects everything, everywhere in the lives of African Americans and others of color. If blacks and Hispanics are disproportionately more likely than whites to be shot by police, live in poverty, have higher unemployment rates, or die …

Unbiased Research on Race Becoming Taboo

CEO StaffCulture & Society, Uncategorized

By Hans Bader It is now dangerous for an academic to conduct or even discuss research that shows an absence of racial bias in the criminal justice system. An Asian-American college official was forced to resign his position after discussing such research, as The College Fix reports in the article, “Scholar forced to resign over study that found police shootings not biased against blacks.” As it notes: Michigan State University leaders have successfully pressured Stephen Hsu to resign from his position as vice president of research…The main thrust to oust Hsu came because the professor touted Michigan State research that found police …

CEO board member Jason Riley: ‘No, police racism isn’t an epidemic’

CEO StaffCulture & Society, Uncategorized

The data don’t show racial bias in police use of deadly force. A few viral videos don’t prove otherwise. So far, we haven’t seen a shred of evidence that George Floyd’s death in police custody last month was racially motivated. But for those looking to exploit the incident, that doesn’t seem to matter. Continue reading here:  https://www.wsj.com/articles/no-police-racism-isnt-an-epidemic-11592952420?redirect=amp#click=https://t.co/buWWT8SZDL Related posts: Good News: Trump Rescinds Obama’s “Affirmative Action” Guidance Did Juan Williams libel LU’s Hans Bader? The Washington Post’s Not-So-Fine Op-Ed CEO Praises Justice Department

Brnovich Amicus Brief

Roger CleggDocuments, Voting Rights

The Center for Equal Opportunity recently joined and helped write amicus briefs urging the Supreme Court to grant review in two cases involving voting rights.  In each we opposed court of appeals decisions that required state and local jurisdictions to engage in politically correct race-based decisionmaking in their voting laws and practices. Brnovich Amicus Brief In addition, in one of these cases, CEO board member and former president and general counsel Roger Clegg had this amicus brief filed on his behalf and others’ in their capacity as former officials of the U.S. Department of Justice’s civil rights division: https://publicinterestlegal.org/files/19-1257-Amicus-Brief.pdf Related …