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U.S. TO INTERVENE IN JUDICIAL WATCH’S REPARATIONS LAWSUIT

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The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a motion to intervene
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in our class action civil rights lawsuit challenging the City of
Evanston’s reparations program, which makes $25,000 direct cash
payments to black residents and descendants of black residents who
lived in Evanston, Illinois, between 1919 and 1969.

The United States filed its motion and a proposed complaint in
intervention in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of
Illinois in our May 2024 lawsuit
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(No. 1:24-cv-04269)). We are assisted by Christine Svenson of Svenson
Legal, LLC.

The Justice Department’s proposed complaint in intervention names
the City of Evanston as a defendant and alleges that the program
violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The
Justice Department also alleges the program violates the Fair Housing
Act.

The United States asserts that it has an unconditional right to
intervene under Section 902 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C.
§ 2000h-2, which allows the attorney general to intervene in cases
alleging the denial of equal protection of the laws on account of race
when the case is certified to be of general public importance.
According to the filing, the acting attorney general has certified
that this case is of general public importance. The Justice Department
notes in its filing that Judicial Watch’s plaintiffs do not oppose
the United States’ intervention but that the City of Evanston does.

In March 2026, U.S. District Judge John F. Kness rejected
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the City’s attempt to dismiss the case, finding that the plaintiffs,
who are white, have standing to pursue their constitutional claims.
The city filed its answer on May 8, 2026.

The Justice Department is right to join our fight against Evanston’s
blatantly unconstitutional reparations scheme. Evanston hands out
$25,000 government payments to blacks only—and the Constitution
flatly forbids this kind of racial discrimination. We are happy that
the United States is following our lead and welcome it as an ally in
this historic lawsuit against a woke, racist program.

LEFTWING GROUP WITH CONSERVATIVE ‘HATE MAP’ GETS MILLIONS OF
TAXPAYER DOLLARS

The Southern Poverty Law Center has been in the news frequently lately
after an indictment by the Justice Department. Our _Corruption
Chronicles_ blog reveals
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details of the organization's funding and spending:

In a flagrant example of government waste, a radical leftwing group
that slanders conservative organizations in an interactive “Hate
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taxpayer dollars to spread its hateful message and materials across
the United States, including in public schools. Nearly $4 million in
taxpayer funds have gone to the Southern Poverty Law Center
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nonprofit dedicated to racial justice in the last decade alone,
according to an alarming report
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by Open the Books, a Florida-based group that runs a vast database of
public spending for all to see. The money came from states, cities,
counties, universities, school districts, and other public entities to
help fulfill the SPLC’s stated mission of “dismantling white
supremacy” and “creating a world where Black and Brown communities
are represented and respected by our democracy.” Since 2016 the SPLC
has received at least $3.85 million to help spread its teaching
materials in America’s public school classrooms, the recently
published report confirms.

The cash flowed from predictable government entities such as New York
City, which is run by liberals, to others with varying ideological
perspectives such as Florida, Kansas, New Jersey and Michigan.
“Incoming public revenue for the SPLC peaked in FY 2021 thanks in
part to Fulton County, Georgia,” the probe found. “That county
made the largest set of payments on August 6: three separate payments
of $30,000; $6,262.00; and $3,019.37 for a total of $39,281.47.”
Many of the awards do not include an explanation even though the
disbursement of public funds is supposed to. Some of the allocations
identify what the money is funding and the projects clearly promote
leftist ideology. For example, a public school district in a suburb of
Rochester, New York paid $4,000 to teach students “tolerance” and
Cincinnati Public Schools in Ohio gave the SPLC $2,000 for a similar
program. This is not the first time taxpayer dollars have funded the
SPLC’s effort to infiltrate the nation’s public education system.
“Open the Books recently uncovered a multimillion-dollar grant to a
public university that involved injecting the SPLC’s “Teaching
Tolerance” curriculum into half a dozen K-12 schools in Michigan,”
the report states, confirming that the group’s extensive research
uncovered a “radical curriculum.”

The multimillion-dollar grant went to the University of Michigan for a
project that infused the SPLC’s radical “Teaching Tolerance”
into the curriculum at several elementary and high schools in
Michigan. Among them was a $2.5 million award called “Youth
Empowerment Solutions: Engaging Youth for Anti-Racism and Cultural
Equity (YES-ERACE).” The money flowed from the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) and funded an after-school curriculum based on
extremist SPLC “Learning for Justice” materials which aim to erase
racial injustice. The project integrated “the Teaching Tolerance
curriculum from the Southern Poverty Law Center” into an existing
local middle school program called Youth Empowerment Solutions,
according to records obtained by Open the Books. Researchers at the
University of Michigan said they would use a “group-randomized trial
design in the summer programs across 6 middle schools” and
“examine the effects of the curriculum on individual youths’ sense
of empowerment, racist behaviors, and violent behavior.” Tens of
thousands of dollars were spent to hire an expert on adolescence
racism and racial identity, an advisory board with expertise in health
equity and anti-racism training and staff specialized in anti-racism
and cultural equity.

While public money flows into its coffers, the SPLC is embroiled in a
big legal battle. In late April, a federal grand jury indicted
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leftist organization for wire fraud, false statements, and conspiracy
to commit money laundering. The Department of Justice (DOJ) says that
for years the SPLC secretly funneled over $3 million to individuals
who were either associated with violent and extremist groups—such as
the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nations—or who infiltrated the groups at
the SPLC’s direction. Unbeknownst to supporters of the “civil
rights” nonprofit, some of their donated money was being used to
fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups while the SPLC
denounced them on its website. “The SPLC is manufacturing racism to
justify its existence,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
“Using donor money to allegedly profit off Klansmen cannot go
unchecked.” FBI Director Kash Patel says the SPLC deceived donors by
promising to dismantle extremist groups while paying the leaders of
those same groups, even utilizing the funds to have the groups
facilitate the commission of state and federal crimes.

Until next week,



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