A group of parents, students, and teachers fighting against an admissions policy that a judge says discriminated against Asian Americans asked the Supreme Court on April 8 to intervene. The updated policy at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) removed standardized tests from the equation and added “experience factors,” which included attendance at a middle school deemed historically underrepresented at TJ. The policy led to a lower percentage of Asian-American students. In February, U.S. District Court Judge Claude Hilton, a Reagan appointee, concluded “it is clear that Asian-American students are disproportionately harmed” by the new system, which “does not treat all applicants to TJ equally.” He ordered the system abandoned. A federal appeals court, though, paused the block against the system while Fairfax County Public Schools appeals the ruling. In its emergency application to the Supreme Court, lawyers for Coalition for TJ said the appeals court “gave short shrift …