California, Hawaii, et al, Amici Curiae
Antonette Benita Cordero, Counsel of Record
California and Hawaii are joined in this brief by Illinois, Iowa, New Mexico, Oregon, and the District of Columbia. Antonette Benita Cordero is a deputy attorney general of the State of California. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Respondent as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on August 30, 2013. Amici submit this brief in support of the Respondents to emphasize that, indeed, Michigan’s constitutional amendment prohibiting race-conscious admissions policies in public universities alters the political structure in such a way as to violate the Equal Protection Clause. It does so by erecting barriers to the…
