Attorneys for Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot reportedly admitted in a court filing that her office had put a racially discriminatory interview policy in place for two days. Lightfoot is facing a civil rights lawsuit by the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) and Judicial Watch for denying an interview request from DCNF reporter Thomas Catenacci, who is white, after the Democratic mayor declared she was granting in-person interviews only to non-white journalists. The filing, obtained by Judicial Watch, came in response to a court injunction ordering the mayor’s office to clarify the the status of the interview policy and whether it would stay in place. Lightfoot’s attorneys argued that her policy of granting interviews exclusively to non-white journalists had been only enforced for a specific two-day period, and therefore the court injunction against the policy is no longer needed. “As announced by the Mayor in the May 19 letter invoked by …
Chicago Mayor’s Attorneys Say Discrimination Against White Reporters Lasted Only 2 Days
June 14, 2021
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