Via Dana, a federal judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit challenging a ballot measure known as Proposition 2 that passed in Michigan in 2006, spearheaded by anti-affirmative action activist Ward Connerly. The law bans considering race and gender in college admissions and government hiring.

Anti-affirmative action advocates are celebrating and hoping that this settles the issue. Groups that advocate for affirmative action plan to appeal “immediately.” As we’ve written about before, eliminating affirmative action has a bad effect on campus diversity and furthers inequality that’s already purported by increasing debt loads and legacy admissions.