Harmeet Dhillon

That's ridiculous and it's un-American.

It's pitting people against each other.

You can imagine what kind of record-keeping shenanigans they're going to be for people to make these claims.

It's breaking the Civil Rights Act.

It's breaking equal protection.

It's fundamentally at odds with our Constitution to treat people differently on the basis of race.

That's what's happening here.

They're giving away money if you are, one, Black, and two, are a subset of Black and can prove that your ancestors lived in the city during a time period.

There's no rational reason for that.

And any kind of race-based classification system is subject to strict scrutiny under our constitutional analysis.

This cannot survive strict scrutiny because it does not remedy some current issue where there's discrimination based on race currently.

And all the Supreme Court precedents in recent years have moved away from this affirmative action slash DEI lens of looking at things based on past discrimination

And the focus is on current discrimination.

So yes, if someone denies you housing today because you're black, you absolutely should sue.

You should contact me because I'll be happy to take up that lawsuit for you.

But if it happened a hundred years ago, um, you know, the clock has run on that.

I'm sorry.

It is time for people today to live on their own merits.

Bondi, given that her interests might diverge from the department?

That is silly and unredeemable.