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Judge gives go-ahead to lawsuit aimed at stopping Chicago Obama library
2019-02-20
[FOX] A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a lawsuit filed by an advocacy group hoping to halt construction of former President Barack Obama's $500 million presidential center on Chicago's South Side can proceed.

U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey, who was nominated to the federal bench by Obama in 2014, ruled that Protect Our Parks has standing to sue the city because it represents taxpayers with concerns that providing land in Jackson Park to the Obama center violates their due process rights. The judge indicated that he doesn't want the litigation to drag on, and that he'll limit any fact-gathering before the trial to 45 days.

The proposed Jackson Park site is seven miles from downtown Chicago, is near low-income neighborhoods where Obama worked as a community organizer, and lies just blocks from the University of Chicago, where Obama was a law professor. It is also close to the home where the Obamas lived until he won the presidency in 2008.
Posted by:Besoeker

#23  Indulgent as ever. ;-) Clunky last line (among others)... hope the Columbian Panama hat fadeout worked. And I'll answer to just about anything.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2019-02-20 23:59  

#22  Zenobia F. PIMF!!!
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-02-20 23:04  

#21  See the design, it is a mosque!
Posted by: Woodrow   2019-02-20 22:57  

#20  Bravo, Senobia F!
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-02-20 22:30  

#19  Exhibits: Mysterious Mom,
Hall of Dads; Diorama: Hammam;
Those columns, that chair,
Deadly drone, "Uh," "I," CAIR,
Bows, Apologies, Prize of Salaam.
Posted by: Large the Fragrant6589   2019-02-20 21:03  

#18  Judicial Watch should be the operator of the Chicago Obama Library.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2019-02-20 15:56  

#17  There will be a wax museum of all the worldly royals, and if you go bow to one a pre-recorded mp3 speech is played.

And no xer, that is not an empty room, that is the golf chamber where all remaining score cards are kept.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-02-20 15:30  

#16  Frank, you forgot RV covers.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2019-02-20 15:13  

#15  "Michele's dresses"

Doubling as curtains and couch covers
Posted by: Frank G   2019-02-20 14:55  

#14  "This library is Sponsored by Iran and UraniumOne (a division of PutinCorp)"
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-02-20 13:23  

#13  Will the gift shop sell Choom?
Posted by: Shoth Schwarzeneggar3463   2019-02-20 12:56  

#12  Will it have a bath house?
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-02-20 12:51  

#11  It is NOT a Presidential Library; there may be access to documents but it would be at computer terminals at one room in the Center - of course people could do that at their home.

It might have various memorabilia, e.g., Michele's dresses and of course a souvenir shop but whatever else it is not a library.


Posted by: lord garth   2019-02-20 12:34  

#10  A zero in hero-shaped hole,
Shy "I" who ran into a poll,
He'll never know why he
Popped up in Hawaii,
A mole on a roll with a goal.
Posted by: Gligum Angamp6083   2019-02-20 12:18  

#9  it will never be big enough for him. He will show up on the grand opening and never return. No reason to visit the 'surrender to enemies' wing or the 'golf' wing or the 'obamacare' wing since he lived it. However, the 'phone and pen' display may be interesting.
Posted by: Airandee   2019-02-20 12:11  

#8  put the Email server in the toilet?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-02-20 11:40  

#7  Or - the opportunity was simply out there, and someone like Obama stepped in to fill the void.

A void within a void
Posted by: Frank G   2019-02-20 09:43  

#6  It was announced early on it would NOT be a prexydential archive, just a boondoggle and a monument to a huge, defective ego.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-02-20 09:39  

#5  I will always believe Soetoro was a recruited, Deep State plant.

Or - the opportunity was simply out there, and someone like Obama stepped in to fill the void.
Posted by: Raj   2019-02-20 09:28  

#4  I will always believe Soetoro was a recruited, Deep State plant.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-02-20 08:45  

#3  This library would be a good place to keep all the documentation of how bigly Obama screwed America for eight years. A repository for copies of the indictments, espionage, evidence destruction, pay-for-play, phony charities, treason, etc., discovery, trial transcripts, testimony, prosecutions, sentencing results,
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-02-20 08:42  

#2  I recommend a significant downsizing.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-02-20 08:36  

#1  Why build a building for what 3 binders can tell you?
Posted by: newc   2019-02-20 01:55  

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