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Bush Administration to Defend Affirmative-Action Programs.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2001

By Wayne Washington, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 8--WASHINGTON--The Department of Justice is expected to file a brief this week defending a rule allowing affirmative-action programs, infuriating conservatives who worry that the Bush administration is softening its opposition to racial preferences to curry favor with minority voters.

"It will be politically damaging, and it will be clear that they have taken a position that is inconsistent with prior commitments," said Roger Clegg, legal counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a conservative interest group.

As a candidate in 1999, George W. Bush said he would end racial preferences and quotas. He has since taken a more ambiguous stand, offering vague...

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