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They said the court should end this type of racial discrimination against Asian students.
However, a longtime champion of admissions policies that rely on social and economic fairness said he hoped the court would side with Montgomery County.
“The Supreme Court has long disfavored racial preferences and pointed to race-neutral programs that look at factors like socioeconomic disadvantage as the right way to do affirmative action,” said Richard D. Kahlenberg, director of the American Identity Project at the Progressive Policy Institute.
