The first U.S. city to offer reparations to Black residents now faces a federal class-action lawsuit alleging its program discriminates against non-Black residents in violation of the Constitution.
A resident rides his bicycle on the street in Evanston, Ill., Friday, March 27, 2020. The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch filed the class-action suit last month against Evanston, Illinois. The city of about 75,000 people outside Chicago in Cook …
“Defendant, acting under color of law, is depriving Plaintiffs of their right to equal protection by purposefully and intentionally discriminating against Plaintiffs on the basis of race,” reads the complaint filed May 23 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The city has allocated $20 million to the program and plans to pay this year 80 direct descendants of residents who were subjected to housing discrimination. The program is funded via a tax on cannabis.
The lawsuit claims the program violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution, which requires the government to treat people equally. “This is really special work,” Ms. Simmons said during a 2020 town hall meeting on the reparations agenda.
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