Conservative Choice Campaign (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a motion for court authorization to depose Mayor Lori Lightfoot in the currently pending civil rights lawsuit on behalf of Thomas Catenacci and the Daily Caller News Foundation regarding her policy of only granting interviews to âjournalists of color.â
On May 18, 2021, Mayor Lightfootâs office informed multiple reporters that she would grant one-on-one interviews, âonly to Black or Brown journalists.â The next day, the mayor released a letter confirming her discriminatory policy.
On May 27, 2021, Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Daily Caller News Foundation and reporter Thomas Catenacci against Lightfoot for violating their First Amendment Rights and Catenacciâs right to equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment (Catenacci et al. v. Lightfoot (No. 1:21-cv-02852)).
