Best of the Web Today: First Among Equals - WSJ.com: "You might have heard that the Supreme Court ruled 6-2 today that states have the right to ban racial preferences, euphemistically known as "affirmative action," in public-university admission, but that's not quite right. On that point the justices (save for Elena Kagan, who sat the case out) were unanimous. "When this Court holds that the Constitution permits a particular policy, nothing prevents a majority of a State's voters from choosing not to adopt that policy," wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayor in a dissent joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
But in the case styled Schuette v. BAMN , Sotomayor endeavored to make nothing into something. She and Ginsburg would have upheld a decision by the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that held illicit the method by which Michigan's voters accomplished that end: a ballot initiative, approved in 2006, that amended the state constitution to bar racial discrimination."
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