The same administration that proposed a $1.7 billion fund for Jan. 6 defendants is arguing that $25,000 housing grants for descendants of enslaved Black people is illegal racial discrimination. The Trump DOJ is trying to shut down the nation's first reparations program. And they're calling it racist against non-Black people. Evanston, Illinois created a first-of-its-kind program in 2021, offering up to $25,000 in housing assistance to Black residents who experienced discriminatory housing policies between 1919 and 1969, or their descendants. It is the first publicly funded reparations program for anti-Black discrimination in U.S. history. The DOJ has now announced it will join a lawsuit by conservative group Judicial Watch, arguing the program violates the Equal Protection Clause and the Fair Housing Act. Harmeet Dhillon of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division called it "race discrimination, pure and simple." Federal legislation to simply STUDY reparations has been proposed annually sin...