Posted on 10/18/2025 11:26:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Something tells me Illinois will find a way to do it. When has that state ever followed rules or laws?
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is a disgusting person.
MSNBC’s Jen Psaki asked Pritzker to elaborate on comments he made on Sunday about the ability to charge ICE agents with breaking state and local laws.
Pritzker answered (so glad Pam Key of Breitbart transcribed this because I did not want to hear his voice):
“We don’t know that anybody would be held accountable at the federal level. So we’re looking at all of the options at the local level with county state’s attorneys, with attorneys general to to go after people when they’re breaking Illinois law, when they’re breaking local law. And, and we think that they have, you know, when they’re driving through an area, someone’s yelling at them and they decide to simply throw a tear gas canister out of the car as they’re driving through at someone who’s on the side of the road, that, it seems to me, is I know is a violation of Illinois law. And so the question is, can we hold the officers, the agents responsible when they do something like that? If it were a police officer, we could, if it was, you know, you or me or just an average person throwing a, you know, a tear gas canister out the side of a window at people, we could hold them responsible. So it seems like they ought to be held responsible for breaking local and state laws.”
"It seems like they ought to be held responsible for breaking local and state laws." Illinois Governor JB Pritzker talks with Jen Psaki about the possibility of prosecuting ICE agents who break the law. https://t.co/3o59Rx4qAL pic.twitter.com/fVM425g0Ma
— The Briefing with Jen Psaki (@PsakiBriefing) October 17, 2025
Can Pritzker do this? Mike Miller at RedState cited the State Democracy Research Initiative.
That article explained why a state cannot prosecute federal officials.
Basically, a state cannot prosecute a federal official if that person acted “within the bounds of their lawful federal duties.”
I found this interesting quote (emphasis mine):
Seth Waxman, the former Solicitor General of the United States, interprets the origins, purpose, and the critical importance of the federal immunity defense as embodied in this well-known Tennessee v. Davis quote as follows:
In short, subjecting federal officers to state criminal sanctions for carrying out their federally appointed duties could make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the federal government to function. Even the most dedicated federal servant would be reluctant to do his job conscientiously if he knew it could mean prison time in the state penitentiary. Seth P. Waxman, What Kind of Immunity? Federal Officers, State Criminal Law, and the Supremacy Clause, 112 Yale L.J. 2195, 2230-31 (2003).4
How about civil court? It’s a route someone could take, but I doubt it would satisfy Pritzker:
Further, there are other methods of recourse against officers (federal and otherwise) who commit wrongs against citizens. Tort law is the law of civil (non-criminal) wrongs. This means that the federal LEO harm a private citizen, the citizen can sue for compensation. Suing versus winning the lawsuit are two different things. But, the citizen can sue for battery, (physical beating) assault, (threat of physical beating) or even false imprisonment. (detaining someone for no legal reason) And while the federal government has immunity on many actions private citizens would otherwise be liable for, they are not immune to suit for intentional torts such as those above. (§ 2608(h)).
The Institute of Justice mentioned the Federal Tort Claims ACT (FTCA), but even that has exceptions when the official carried out a “discretionary function” and many intentional torts: “Courts across the country disagree about how to apply this rule, but many have stretched this immunity to cover most acts by law enforcement and other government agents.”
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Oh how I would like to see Pritzker SWAT raided and handcuffed, naked, beside the road during morning rush hour. It would be disgusting I am sure. I would rather read about it rather than seeing the naked whale, But I hope it happens.
Yo, Prickster. Who paid for your trip to Vegas?
Everything else being equal, JB Pritzker v. Trump: Trump wins.
The first few seconds of the first “sanctuary city” and “sanctuary state” insurrections against the federal government began the local and state officials should have been stopped cold.
Allowing these spoiled brat children in adult bodies to go with their demented socialist plans to defy the government only emboldened them.
If a local organized crime group declared: “Stay out of our warehouses, our trucks and our headquarters. No entrance. Sanctuary crime zones. This means you.” would they get away with it? (Maybe yes if Hunter got them to give 10% to The Bug Guy).
The demonic JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are absolute proof that Satan works without rest.
Pritzker should be indicted under RICO for encouraging, aiding and abetting the ANTIFA communist criminal uprising against the US Government of which is simply upholding the law. Those kinds of actions and verbal threats make J B Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Johnson and anyone else who does the same a criminal that needs to be held accountable.
Federal law trumps local law...
The judges too.
Lon Horiuchi has entered the chat.
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You should be criminally charged for refusing to support the U.S. Constitution that you swore to in your oath of office, and your failure to support the immigration laws of the United States. Your State belongs to a Republic and Union of states. You are not a sovereign state or nation. Your state receives Federal Funds. You are bound by that Republic, and the established laws of that Republic. You don’t get to pick and choose what laws you want to enforce. You are bound to enforce each and every one as part of that Republic.
Prickster should be charged with breaking federal immigration law and obstruction.
BUMP!
Impeached, at least. Not sure how Illinois code reads in regard to the Oath and qualifications, but the U.S. Constitution promises domestic Tranquility. Pritzker does not take his Oath seriously.
Pricker is too stupid to understand that Federal law has supremacy over state law and if federal agents are enforcing federal law, they can’t be charged for violating state law. However, asses like Pricker should know that state politicians, like him, who violate or impede enforcement of Federal law are subject to arrest.
They will not stop until their actions result in real hurt.
Pritzker should be charged for leading an invasion of the US
Arrest him already.
JB the Hutt’s mouth is writing checks his massive ass can’t cash.
If he had it his way, the repulsive sonofabitch would charge them with violating his semi-auto/magazine ban.
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