Is President Trump making an in-kind donation to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s re-election campaign? That’s one way to read the news on Monday that the Justice Department has opened a civil-rights investigation into Chicago’s hiring practices, based on stray comments from Mr. Johnson about the number of black staffers working for city hall.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
More than stray comments, Johnson’s “we hire mostly black people” policy is upfront and starkly visible.
Stray comments , I think not. Sounds more like an equal opportunity employment violation.