Michigan attorney general to preview affirmative action case at Newsmaker Oct. 14

Michigan attorney general Bill Schuette, who is defending Michigan’s constitutional amendment requiring equal treatment in public college and university admissions before the U.S. Supreme Court, will preview the case at a National Press Club Newsmaker Monday, Oct. 14, at 10 a.m. in the Zenger Room.

Schuette will be joined by Jennifer Gratz, the original plaintiff in the precedent-setting Michigan affirmative action case Gratz v. Bollinger regarding the University of Michigan undergraduate affirmative action admissions policy. She is the founder of the XIV Foundation, named for the 14th Amendment.

On July 1, 2011, a three judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit declared Michigan's constitutional ban on racial preferences in public education unconstitutional on the grounds it allegedly violated the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Section 26 of the Michigan Constitution prohibits race- and sex-based discrimination or preferential treatment in public-university admissions, public employment and public contracting.

Herb Perone
Perone Communications
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