The Hill reports that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) faces a lawsuit from The Daily Caller News Foundation and one of its reporters regarding her policy of giving one-on-one media interviews solely to people of color.
The media outlet filed its lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. They’re accusing Lightfoot of ignoring an interview request from Daily Caller reporter Thomas Catenacci due to him not being a “journalist of color.”
“Defendant is aware that Plaintiff Catenacci is not a ‘journalist of color,’ and Defendant has denied Plaintiff’s interview request pursuant to her announcement that she will only grant interview requests from ‘journalists of color,'” the suit states.
The lawsuit requests the court order Lightfoot to provide Catenacci an interview and pay the plaintiffs’ attorneys fees and litigation costs. The decision to sue Lightfootb comes over a week after the Chicago mayor declared she would give one-on-one media interviews only to reporters of color covering her second anniversary in office.
“The City has not had the opportunity to review the complaint and has not yet been served,” the Chicago Department of Law said.
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