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California Assembly backs repealing affirmative action ban

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A push to change California’s Constitution to let public universities and government agencies consider race when making admissions and hiring decisions passed its first test Wednesday as more than two-thirds of the state Assembly voted to put the question on the ballot in November.California has banned affirmative action-type programs since 1996 when 55% of voters agreed to amend the state’s Constitution to ban “preferential treatment” based on race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin.That amendment has withstood multiple legal challenges and legislative attempts to change it.

But this year, worldwide protests over racial injustice sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis have given supporters.

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