Tom Fitton's Idiotic Strike Suit -- Against Evanston Reparations -- Just Admitted That None Of His Recruited "Plaintiffs" Live There, Or Hold Property There. Game Over.

Not surprisingly, once again, Tom Fitton and Judicial Watch will be drummed out of federal court, for failing to grasp jurisdictional matters. That is, as we suspected (and Fitton admits this morning, through counsel's silence in a sworn pleading!), none of the recruits live in Evanston, or hold property there. [I won't quote his nonsense, but it is linked here for the sake of a complete record.]

I represented, pro bono publico, several of the already successful actual reparations recipients -- and all the final papers (as opposed to the drafts Fitton offered) require that a recipient show current Evanston residence. It is, in sum. . . a jurisdictional requirement -- to be able to apply. Without meeting it, one has no standing to complain. Period.

[Note that the reparations funds were/are all raised from local Evanston / real estate tax assessments -- why would local Evanston residents vote to send money to people who do not live there, and do not agree to use it, to improve the housing stock in Evanston, in which victims of prior race discrimination now reside?! The resolution was passed on the basis of making amends to people still living in Evanston. Fitton deceptively says that about 7% of those applying were not resident in Evanston. None of those people have received funding. Full stop. What a putz.]

This is a requirement none of his "recruits" presently meets, and had not met on the day he churlishly filed suit.

In passing, we would again remind the readership that. . . an elected Palatine Village Trustee (a tax-payer funded position; see at left -- in a village that is about 10 miles WEST of Evanston, no less!) -- and yet another of Fitton's local lawyers. . . knew it, too.

Trustee and private attorney Alicia Svenson averred that ending race discrimination is no longer a compelling government interest.

[I wonder what the ~26,800 people of color (non-whyte) in the Village of Palatine (2022 population: ~68,500 people) think of that sworn position, of hers, in this suit? I may ask -- when I return from the mountains. Maybe even organize. . . a social media campaign, with slick graphics, to boot.

When is that next Trustees' election, BTW?] Smile.

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