Reparations commission releases report on harms against black citizens, calls for lawmakers to act

From BizPac Review:

As had been reported in February, the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, which had officially begun its mission of reparations in 2019, had announced another 44 residents were expected to get taxpayer-funded handouts of $25,000 meant to go toward housing expenses. The monies were said to have been collected through the real estate transfer tax and revenue from the sale of cannabis.

Meanwhile, it had also been detailed that Evanston was facing a class action lawsuit over the reparations as Judicial Watch had asserted in a court filing that the handouts were a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

“[T]he program’s use of a race-based eligibility requirement is presumptively unconstitutional, and remedying societal discrimination is not a compelling government interest. Nor has remedying societal discrimination from as many as 105 years ago, or remedying intergenerational discrimination ever been recognized as a compelling government interest,” argued Judicial Watch. “Among the program’s other fatal flaws is that it uses race as a proxy for discrimination without requiring proof of discrimination.”

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