Share
News

Chicago Group Appeals to Supreme Court in Last-Ditch Effort to Halt Obama Library Construction

Share

A Chicago-based environmental group filed an emergency request on Monday to stop the construction of President Barack Obama’s presidential library.

Protect Our Parks and others asked the Supreme Court to halt construction in the city’s Jackson Park, arguing that the library was unlawfully split into multiple projects to avoid a full assessment of its environmental impacts.

If construction proceeds, plaintiffs argue, it will “demolish significant parts of Jackson Park, its historical resources, parkland, and trees, which will, in turn, adversely affect the human environment, the historic landscape, wildlife, and migratory birds.”

“The federal reviews were fundamentally flawed; specifically, the reviews artificially segmented the [Obama Presidential Center] project into two pieces,” Protect Our Parks said in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“The plaintiffs will argue that this artificial segmentation is integral to what violates the federal statute.”

Trending:
KJP Panics, Hangs Up in Middle of Interview When Reporter Shows He Isn't a Democratic Party Propagandist

The group proposes that Washington Park, a few miles away from Jackson Park, is a suitable alternative location.

Failed attempts to halt the project in the lower courts led to the appeal to the Supreme Court.

Protect Our Parks sued the city of Chicago in 2018 on the grounds that the OPC would benefit private, rather than public, interest, as required by law, The Hill reported.

Should the Supreme Court halt construction on the Obama Presidential Center?

A district court judge dismissed the effort, and the group’s appeal also failed, according to The Hill.

The Supreme Court declined to review the earlier case in April.

The Monday request was written directly to Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who may now either take the petition up herself or refer it to another justice.

“We await word from the Court as to next steps,” an Obama Foundation spokesperson told the DCNF.

The spokesperson also noted that construction on the presidential library began on Monday and that the group is “excited to bring this historic project to the city of Chicago.”

Content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience.

Related:
Obama Seen Meeting with Foreign Leader, Content of Private One-on-One Discussions Kept Secret

For licensing opportunities of the DCNF’s original content, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.

A version of this article appeared on the Daily Caller News Foundation website.

Truth and Accuracy

Submit a Correction →



We are committed to truth and accuracy in all of our journalism. Read our editorial standards.

Tags:
, , , , , ,
Share
Founded by Tucker Carlson, a 25-year veteran of print and broadcast media, and Neil Patel, former chief policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, The Daily Caller News Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit providing original investigative reporting from a team of professional reporters that operates for the public benefit. Photo credit: @DailyCaller on Twitter




Conversation