Reparations Lawsuit Update!

Tom Fitton’s Judicial Watch Weekly Update | September 20, 2024 Judicial Watch Pursues Civil Rights Lawsuit against Reparations PolicyJudicial Watch Sues over Trip to Cuba Led by Reps. Omar and JayapalJudicial Watch Sues for Records about Transgender Surgeries for MinorsICE Issues Half the Detainers for Criminal Aliens Under Biden than Trump Judicial Watch Pursues Civil Rights Lawsuit against Reparations Policy We’re not backing away from our effort to stop an unconstitutional city program. We asked a court to reject a motion by the City of Evanston, IL, to dismiss our class action lawsuit on behalf of six individuals over the city’s use of race as an eligibility requirement for a reparations program. This program makes $25,000 direct cash payments to black residents and descendants of black residents who lived in Evanston between the years 1919 and 1969. Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division (Flinn et al. v Evanston (No. 1:24-cv-04269)). We allege in the complaint that the program violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In response to the city’s motion to dismiss, Judicial Watch argues that the case should continue...