White House Delays Joining Prop. 209 Fight
Clinton administration officials have decided to take more time to decide whether and how to join a court challenge to Proposition 209, the California law that would ban race- and gender-based affirmative action.
The Justice Department “asked the White House for additional time to address the legal basis for a challenge to the California proposition,” White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry told reporters Wednesday after the administration passed up one deadline for joining the case. He estimated it might take about two weeks.
U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson issued a temporary restraining order late last month barring enforcement of the measure, saying it might be unconstitutional.
The administration passed up Wednesday’s deadline for entering the case if it wanted to argue at Monday’s hearing in San Francisco on whether Henderson’s order should be extended until the legal challenges are resolved.
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