On November 4, 2008, 58 percent of Nebraska voters barred their state and local governments from preferring and discriminating against individuals based on race in hiring, contracting, and admissions.
After the governor certified the results, Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative executive director Doug Tietz said, “The voters overwhelmingly supported the Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative and now Nebraska’s state motto ‘equality before the law’ is officially the law of the land.”
As expected, the new law was challenged in court. Last week, a Nebraska court upheld the ban. Ruling against a group called Nebraskans United, Judge Karen Flowers wrote that the facts didn’t present any evidence of fraud, as the group claimed. (Source)
“The most common phrase in the judge’s ruling is, ‘there is no evidence,’” Tietz said. “It is time for the opposition to put to rest their baseless allegations and acknowledge the people’s decision to end race and gender preferences in public contracting, public education, and public hiring”
Will Nebraskans United end up appealing Judge Flowers’s ruling? Most likely. They probably won’t prevail, since the lower court found no evidence of fraud, but that won’t stop groups from trying to overturn the vote.
Protecting and upholding the will of the people is no small task, is it?
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