Great news on the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (the referendum that would outlaw race preferences in Michigan). At the end of August, I posted about efforts by a coalition called BAMN (By Any Means Necessary) to keep MRCI off the ballot.

BAMN went up against the Center for Individual Rights whose head, Terrence Pell, explained the battle in this WSJ piece. Now it looks as though CIR has won. The 6th Circuit Court denied BAMN’s motion for a preliminary injunction to keep the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative off the ballot. BAMN won’t give up, of course. Even if MRCI passes, they will try to persuade the 6th Circuit to invalidate the results. But while CIR will have to fight that battle, I think odds are good that they’ll prevail.

In short, the Michigan Civil Rights initiative is now on the ballot. Voters in Michigan now have a chance to effectively overturn the Supreme Court’s narrow and ill-advised decision backing the University of Michigan’s race-preferential admissions policies. Any Corner readers out there in Michigan? If so, please go out and vote. In a year when the threats of terror and a nuclear Iran loom large, we can’t lose sight of this epochal chance to win the battle against so-called “affirmative action.”