Opinion | Affirmative Action in Contracting Faces Legal Peril

Wonder Land: Democrats said decades ago they alone would run policies for black Americans. Now comes the reckoning.

Images: AP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly, the Supreme Court held that “racial balancing” was “patently unconstitutional,” and that affirmative action has to have a “logical end point.” There’s been a lot of commentary about how that will apply to employment law but less about another program of racial discrimination: favoritism to racial minorities in government contracts.

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