“How do you know that?” Quinn asked, pushing back on the claim that reparations would be distributed unlawfully.
According to Courthouse News, “Quinn and Quinio had a rousing back-and-forth about taxpayer standing and other issues. Quinn asked whether ‘a possibility that something race-conscious is going to happen’ was enough to bring a claim.”
“Quinio said yes, it was sufficient,” the outlet reported.
“‘No, it’s not,” Quinn replied.
“‘There’s no authority for that.’ He noted that if that were true, ‘then we would have thousands of taxpayer actions, challenging all kinds of laws that citizens disagree with because something might happen under that law.’”
Quinn is said to have said that the plaintiffs would have to show that the ordinance was illegal in every way it could be used to properly challenge it, as long as the plan had one option that wouldn’t be based on race.
Jerry Brown, who used to be the Democratic governor of California, chose Quinn.
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