A conservative media outlet filed a lawsuit against Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, accusing the Democrat of discriminating against a white reporter by sticking to her announcement not to grant interviews with white people.
The Daily Caller alleges that Lightfoot violated the First Amendment rights of the outlet and reporter Thomas Catenacci, as well as infringing on Catenacci’s equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment. Judicial Watch, a conservative activist group, filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.
“It’s absurd that an elected official believes she can discriminate on the basis of race,” said Ethan Barton, editor in chief of the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Mayor Lightfoot’s decision is clearly blocking press freedom through racial discrimination.”
The Daily Caller News Foundation and one of its reporters is suing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois accuses Lightfoot of ignoring an interview request from Thomas Catenacci, a reporter for the conservative publication, because he is not a journalist of color.
The suit, filed by conservative government watchdog group Judicial Watch, claims Lightfoot violated Catenacci’s First Amendment and equal protection rights.
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The mayor s office has not yet filed a legal response to the suit, according to a federal court electronic records database.
“The City has not had the opportunity to review the complaint and has not yet been served,” the Chicago Department of Law said when asked about the suit.
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Conservative watchdog Judicial Watch has sued Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, D., on behalf of the Daily Caller News Foundation, the group announced Thursday, over her policy of granting interviews to only non-White reporters.
The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, alleges Lightfoot violated reporter Thomas Catenacci s equal protection rights under the Fourteenth Amendment when she didn t respond to multiple requests for interviews, as well as his First Amendment rights.
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