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On January 7, a judge in Missouri tossed out an attempt by Democratic officials to rewrite the ballot language of the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative, which will ban racial preferences in state government if voters give it their blessing.(The Week)(Brief article)

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On January 7, a judge in Missouri tossed out an attempt by Democratic officials to rewrite the ballot language of the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative, which will ban racial preferences in state government if voters give it their blessing. It's no wonder that Missouri's liberal secretary of state and attorney general turned to such trickery: When anti-preference measures go before the electorate, as they have in California, Michigan, and Washington, they win by comfortable margins. With this new ruling, the MCRI moves ...

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