Obama’s dream of a monument to himself in Chicago suffers a blow from a judge that he appointedAmerican Thinker, Feb 20, 2019, Thomas Lifson
Hopes for timely groundbreaking for the “Obama Presidential Center†in Chicago suffered a blow yesterday in a federal courtroom. A federal judge appointed to the bench by Barack Obama gave the go-ahead for a lawsuit that will delay, and quite possibly end, the plan to build and operate the monument as a center for extolling the sheer wonderfulness of Barack and Michelle Obama. The lawsuit, brought by Protect Our Parks, challenges the legality of handing over 20 acres of irreplaceable lakefront park land for 99 years to a private interest group, the Obama Foundation, which enjoys tax deductibility for donations to it, but which is unaccountable to any elected representatives of the people.
The granting of standing to the plaintiffs is critical, for that was probably the best hope of the Obamas to quash the lawsuit right away.
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This report obscures the critical factor: The state legislation allowed the construction of “presidential libraries,†which are owned by US taxpayers and run by the National Archives in the public interest. The Obama Foundation switched the planned facility to a purely private entity, designed, built, and operated for its own purposes – my take is that it is a monument to Obama (curiously, shaped like a cenotaph) and a center for political organizing. Not a single book or government document would be housed there. It would be run at whim of the Obama Foundation, glorifying the man whom few would ever call modest.
The term for this sort of maneuver is “bait and switch†and I think it is a very solid legal claim. The legislation do not authorize a private monument.
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