Sixth Circuit Rules Against Biden Administration’s Race-Based Restaurant Covid-19 Relief Funds

Last week, a lawsuit was filed against the Biden administration for allegedly prioritizing small businesses like restaurants and bars owned by women and minorities over white men with the Biden COVID-19 relief package. This lawsuit names Isabella Casiallas Guzman, the U.S. Small Business Association Administrator as the defendant and the case was filed on behalf of Antonio Vitolo, the owner of a small bar and grill in Tennessee.

Vitolo was motivated to file this case after the Biden administration implemented the American Rescue Plan Act and the Small Business Administration (SBA) said they, “would only process and fund priority group applicants.” The SBA identified these priority groups as businesses at least 51% owned by women, veterans, or the socially and economically disadvantaged. Someone is defined by the SBA as socially disadvantaged if they have been, “subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice or cultural bias because of their identity as a member of a group without regard to their individual qualities.”

Viotlo’s lawsuit claimed that these gender and race prioritizations are racist and therefore unconstitutional. The 6th circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals in favor of Vitolo and against the Biden American Rescue Plan yesterday.

#BREAKING WOAH‼️6th circuit rules 2-1 against the Biden American Rescue Plan stating that the formula to award relief funds to restaurants is racist and therefore unconstitutional.

— Tim Swain (@SwainForSenate) May 27, 2021

The court ruled that the SBA had, “injected explicit racial and ethnic preferences into the priority process.” The ruling went on to say that this Biden Rescue Plan presumptively sends, “men from non-favored racial groups (including whites, some Asians, and most middle Easterners) to the back of the line” when these groups are seeking small business relief.

Judge Thapar’s conclusion on the case mimics talking points of Conservative personalities speaking out on the growing presence of anti-white racism in America: “It has been twenty-five years since the Supreme Court struck down the race-conscious policies in Adarand. And it has been nearly twenty years since the Supreme Court struck down the racial preferences in Gratz. As today’s case shows once again, the ‘way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.'”

While the 6th circuit ruled 2-1 against the Biden administration’s plan, it is possible that the case could be appealed to the Supreme Court.

In a press conference yesterday, President Biden produced a list of Republicans that voted against his Rescue Plan but took credit for the small business relief plan in their districts and local communities

Joe Biden has a list of Republicans who voted against the American Rescue Plan but are shamelessly touting it anyway pic.twitter.com/wQuDgsEA9j

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 27, 2021

This case will fuel the everlasting fight that burns between the Democrats and Republicans, especially after the 6th Circuit ruling in favor of the Republican naysayers viewpoints.

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