At Tuesday evening’s Jackson Township Council meeting, Council President Alex Sauickie said that the township will push off the repeal of Ordinance 5-20 that effectively banned yeshivas in Jackson. The US Department of Justice last week filed a lawsuit against Jackson Township and the township’s planning board for allegedly implementing zoning ordinances that intentionally restricted the operation of religious schools.
Council President Sauickie said that the DOJ had mischaracterized the township in the lawsuit and that further guidance would be requested from the Justice Department. If the DOJ did not recommend changes agreeable to Jackson officials, the township would then fight the lawsuit in court. As of now the repeal of the ordinance is not tabled indefinitely, and will be revisited at the June 23rd Council meeting.
An abundance of evidence has already been gathered proving that numerous officials in the township have engaged in discriminatory behavior, many of which were revealed on TLS, with several leading to the resignations of high ranking officials.
Sources tell TLS that the Department of Justice has been provided with additional evidence showing that officials did indeed implement those ordinances in order to block yeshivas and religious schools from opening in Jackson Township.
The Council passed a second reading to repeal an Ordinance 6-20 banning dormitories in Jackson, a move that was approved because the ordinance was “redundant,” according to Council President Sauickie.
DEVELOPING.
Was that headline supposed to be a play on the word “Nixes” (Nixon)????
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Sauickie is just playing games with the Feds and thereby just gaining a little more time to for Jakkkson to be marinated just before the summertime barbeques begin.