Judge Rejects Challenge To $5M-Per-Resident Reparations Fund As Premature

The lawsuit says the ordinance is racist because it lets taxpayer money go into the fund and not other funds.

The plaintiffs said that a win would keep taxpayers from having to pay for a race-based program run by the government and set limits for other cities that want to use similar policies.

Reports say that Quinn wasn’t persuaded by claims that the reparations plan is racist.

He said that there isn’t enough proof yet to know if using the program would have racial effects.

“Both the United States and California Constitutions forbid this,” the nonprofit says in its complaint.

“Government may not allocate benefits, opportunities, or burdens according to race or lineage,” the nonprofit added in its complaint.

“This is a taxpayer standing challenge at the pleading stage against an ordinance that assigns a public agency, a taxpayer-funded agency, with the responsibility of administering a fund for an unlawful purpose,” said Andrew Quinio, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation.