{"id":567266,"date":"2021-06-17T17:36:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T21:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=567266"},"modified":"2021-06-17T17:36:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T21:36:26","slug":"lightfoot-could-discriminate-again-without-court-action-judicial-watch-argues-in-dcnf-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lightfoot-could-discriminate-again-without-court-action-judicial-watch-argues-in-dcnf-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightfoot Could Discriminate Again Without Court Action, Judicial Watch Argues In DCNF Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flightfoot-could-discriminate-again-without-court-action-judicial-watch-argues-in-dcnf-lawsuit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=567266&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Lawyers for Daily Caller News Foundation reporter Thomas Catenacci asserted that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot could adopt discriminatory policies towards journalists in the future without a court intervening.<\/p>\n<p>In a response filed on Thursday, Judicial Watch lawyers reiterated their call for a preliminary injunction to stop Lightfoot from possibly adopting such policies in the future. Her policy, adopted on May 19, barred white reporters from interviewing her. The response also points out that the mayor has not denied that her race-based interview policy applied to Catenacci\u2019s interview request.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile other journalists may be relieved that Mayor Lightfoot has asserted that she will not discriminate against them on the basis of race going forward, the mayor\u2019s assertion that she has stopped discriminating on the basis of race does nothing to remedy the irreparable harm Plaintiffs suffered on May 20, 2021 and continue to suffer,\u201d the Judicial Watch response said. \u201cAnd absent an injunction or other order of this Court, nothing compels Mayor Lightfoot from not discriminating on the basis of race in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge John Z. Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/07\/lori-lightfoot-clarify-policy-denied-interviews-white-journalists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ordered Lightfoot\u2019s office<\/a> to clarify its policy during a court hearing on June 7, and the office subsequently said that the policy was only in effect for two days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we saw [during the hearing] \u2026 was a really encouraging sign,\u201d Catenacci said last Friday. \u201cEssentially, the judge ordered the mayor and the city to state on the record and present to the court its [clarified] policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat that means is that the city will have to say, \u2018Yes, for one day we did discriminate based on race.\u2019 And then from that point forward we\u2019ll see what they give the court,\u201d Catenacci said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMayor Lightfoot seems to be out of control,\u201d Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said. \u201cThe court should issue an immediate injunction because the mayor cannot be trusted to stop discriminating based on race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/11\/lori-lightfoot-daily-caller-news-foundation-policy-barring-white-reporters-frivolous\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">described the suit<\/a> against her as \u201cfrivolous\u201d ahead of her office\u2019s clarification, saying that she would have used a \u201cmore colorful term\u201d had she not been on live television. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/14\/daily-caller-news-foundation-lori-lightfoot-merrick-garland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Member Of US Commission On Civil Rights Blasts Lightfoot\u2019s Policy Barring White Journalists From Interviews)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7165126\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7165126\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7165126\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/lori-lightfoot-scaled-1.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/lori-lightfoot-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/lori-lightfoot-167x120.jpg 167w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/lori-lightfoot-620x446-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/lori-lightfoot-768x552-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/lori-lightfoot-1536x1104-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/lori-lightfoot-2048x1473-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7165126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lori Lightfoot speaks being elected as the next mayor of Chicago, Illinois on April 2, 2019. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lightfoot\u2019s policy has been widely condemned, including by journalists of color.<\/p>\n<p>One Latino reporter at the Chicago Tribune who was set to interview Lightfoot\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/20\/gregory-pratt-cancels-interview-lori-lightfight-discrimination\/\">backed out of the interview<\/a>\u00a0after the mayor refused to rescind her policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked the mayor\u2019s office to lift its condition on others and when they said no, we respectfully canceled,\u201d Tribune reporter Gregory Pratt\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/royalpratt\/status\/1395025840946262017?\">wrote on Twitter<\/a>. \u201cPoliticians don\u2019t get to choose who covers them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers for Daily Caller News Foundation reporter Thomas Catenacci asserted that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot could adopt discriminatory policies towards journalists in the future without a court intervening.In a response &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280632,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/lori-lightfoot-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Lightfoot Could Discriminate Again Without Court Action, Judicial Watch Argues In DCNF Lawsuit","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/lori-lightfoot-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Lightfoot Could Discriminate Again Without Court Action, Judicial Watch Argues In DCNF Lawsuit","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}