A Referendum on Race Preferences Divides Michigan

The state is poised to become the third to restrict affirmative action at public colleges

Jennifer Gratz is at it again. As a lead plaintiff in one of two legal challenges to race-conscious admissions policies decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003, Ms. Gratz failed in her effort to persuade the court to completely strike down such policies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Now Ms. Gratz is trying to accomplish at the polls what she could not in the courts. She is

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