This Trumpian guy, Andrew Boutros, in Chicago — was/is also deeply involved in trying to violate people’s (mostly without papers) rights in Chicago. But seeing as how that is all winding down now since, as US Attorney for the Northern District here, he has lost every motion he filed (and may be subjected to santions in USDC Judge April Perry’s courtroom, shortly) — he now turns his attention. . . to trying to prevent Evanston from snuffing out the idiotic Fitton shills’ challenge to our reparations program. [That in turn is presently being heard before a conservative USDC Judge — Kness… a former Chicago cop, from the early 2000s.]
Boutros wastes tons of US taxpayer money — to file what is simply a political manifesto that bears no resemblance to existing federal law. And cites a long discredited former Bush/Cheney appointee lawyer (and deceased 2020 election denier — one Boyden Gray) as his touchstone “authority” — for seeking to intervene in a private suit. Damn. Here are those papers: an idiotic “memo” of supposed law, and a purported “complaint” at law. Both are specious. Get this:
…While the City was considering whether to establish the Program, former White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray [Ed. Note — he most recently led a Trump-PAC-funded 2020 effort to overturn the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, before he died of a heart attack at age 80 in 2023] submitted a detailed legal analysis [actually just a whiny screed letter, from a private citizen, at that point] to Evanston explaining that the Program would provide benefits based on race and would be unconstitutional under Supreme Court precedent. Among other things, the letter pointed out that the Program was not supported by “the kind of specific evidence necessary to justify the imposition of a… racially discriminatory policy.” The letter also noted that the City “had failed to give more than perfunctory consideration to race neutral considerations such as upzoning, loosening restrictive zoning practices” or providing “income-based housing assistance to achieve greater financial equality regardless of the race of the applicant.”
The City nevertheless adopted the Program without making changes to address the legal objections identified in the analysis….
The Trumpers are just butt-sore that we out-maneuvered them. Even so, Boutros thinks we must take the word of this Boyden fellow, over the United States Supreme Court?
Forgive me if… I am… unmoved. [Evanston will have until July 20, 2026, in any event — to file substantive papers to oppose this attempted intervenor, if USDC Judge Kness doesn’t toss it before then, on his own.] Out.
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