Wow – check it out – a judge actually acknowledged that voters voting on an issue directly actually matters. Too bad the folks who challenge voter approved initiatives still don’t quite understand the tenets of democracy.

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of Proposal 2, the 2006 statewide referendum that banned race and gender affirmative action in public university admissions and government and public school hiring and contracting.”To impugn the motives of 58% of Michigan’s electorate, in the absence of extraordinary circumstances which do not exist here, simply is not warranted on this record,” U.S. District Judge David Lawson said in a 55-page ruling, adding that there is no evidence the proposal was enacted with discriminatory intent. “Proposal 2 does not violate the United States Constitution.”

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