Mark Meadows running legal group to promote white rights
By Joan Walsh
YESTERDAY 4:02 PM
... Mark Meadows .. has a .. new project: working with Stephen Miller on an effort called America First Legal ... On behalf of white Texans .. they recently succeeded in getting a federal judge to stop the Small Business Administration’s disbursement of restaurant Covid relief funds that prioritized businesses owned by women, veterans, and people of color ...
Also on the board of America First Legal? Former acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker ... Whitaker .. succeeded Jeff Sessions as attorney general .. before .. William Barr ...
Meadows and Miller’s group represents the owners of the Dallas–Fort Worth area franchise of The Lost Cajun, a restaurant chain run by a white couple ... The SBA regulations governing the $28.6 billion Restaurant Revitalization Fund didn’t exclude white-owned restaurants ,, but created a 21-day window where restaurants owned by women, veterans, and people of color got priority. Janice and Jason Smith enlisted Miller and Meadows to argue that such prioritization was “unconstitutional,” and a judge blocked the disbursement of funds to the “socially and economically disadvantaged” businesses — while allowing funds to other business owners to be released.
The SBA had already released almost all of its funding, mainly to priority businesses, but also to some white-owned restaurants. The 3,000 “disadvantaged” restaurateurs now denied funding had already been approved, but they won’t get help; the remaining $1.2 billion can only be granted to “non-priority” businesses, which mainly means white ones ...
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/mark-meadows-rosen-trump/
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