The joker brought a federal suit — against a local city program, one which required as a condition of being eligible, that each claimant own or have rented real property in the city, and that the people applying had already lived in said real property in the city — between 1919 and 1969. [Or, if later than 1969, could show evidence of discrimination based on race, in housing in the city.]

The goofs (styled as plaintiffs by Fitton — the people he no doubt recruited) meet exactly none of those conditions, to even be able to apply (let alone complain about local tax dollars being used in a city they left decades ago — all whyte ppl).

And the applications process closed in 2021 (during COVID). None of them dropped by.

So this morning, the able USDC Judge Kness in Chicago put this all on a short fuse — for dismissal (as ably urged by Jenner & Block), for lack of standing to even get beyond the courthouse doors.

Here’s that text only entry:

…This docket entry was made by the Clerk on Monday, July 29, 2024:

MINUTE entry before the Honorable John F. Kness:

The Court sets the following briefing schedule on Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss and for Leave to Take Jurisdictional Discovery [13]:

[Fitton’s] response is due on or before 8/19/2024 and Defendant’s reply, if any, is due on or before 9/3/2024.

Mailed notice….

It would be difficult to imagine a more… inept strike suit, indeed. But this is SOP for Judicial Watch, and the non-lawyer Tom Fitton.