From Evanston Now:
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday it had filed a motion to join a civil rights lawsuit against the City of Evanston’s first-in-the-nation reparations program, alleging the program is discriminatory and violates the 14th Amendment.
In a federal court filing Tuesday afternoon, the DOJ announced it was joining the suit, Flinn V. City of Evanston, filed in May 2024 by the conservative legal action group, Judicial Watch, in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, claiming the program’s race-based eligibility requirement violated the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.
In a statement, Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton celebrated the news, writing that the DOJ is “right to join our fight against Evanston’s blatantly unconstitutional reparations scheme,” describing it as a “woke, racist program.”
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