Posted on 10/15/2025 2:43:42 PM PDT by DFG
Cook County’s chief judge has signed an order banning federal immigration agents from arresting people around local courthouses without a warrant.
Timothy Evans on Tuesday signed a new general order, which reaffirms the common law privilege against civil arrest while attending court, after county officials complained of arrests by immigration agents being made before, during and after unrelated court hearings.
“The fair administration of justice requires that courts remain open and accessible, and that litigants and witnesses may appear without fear of civil arrest,” the order states. “The common law has long recognized this privilege to ensure individuals can fulfill legal duties without risking further legal jeopardy.”
That order states that no one attending a court proceeding in which they are a party, witness or potential witness, will be subjected to a civil arrest in or around the courthouse, except in cases where there is a judicial warrant or order authorizing that arrest.
The order also bans those civil arrests from being made when an individual is going to, attending or returning from a court proceeding
“Access to justice depends on every individual’s ability to appear in court without fear or Obstruction,” Evans said in a statement. “Our courthouses remain places where all people—regardless of their background or circumstance—should be able to safely and confidently participate in the judicial process.”
County officials said last month that plain-clothes federal agents in unmarked vehicles have refused to provide identification or even warrants in some instances as they carry out their immigration operations.
That includes arrests and interactions at multiple county courthouses in July and September.
Cook County Public Defender Sharone Mitchell said previously that federal agents have refused to say what agency they work for and rarely present a valid warrant when they make their arrests at those sites and take people away in unmarked vehicles.
“We are gratified that the Chief Judge has exercised his authority to protect our communities, which have been under constant attack by ICE and other federal agents,” Alexa Van Brunt, director of MacArthur Justice Center’s Chicago Office, said in a statement. “This is a necessary and overdue action to ensure that the people of Cook County can access the courts without fear.”
These illegal alien invaders have no legal rights in the United States. Let them go to their embassy and claim rights there.
Judges rule ... and Congress ZZZZZZZZZ
So a county judge can issue orders to federal law enforcement? I think not.
In the realm of repugnant judicial orders, this one is top of the heap.
I think it would be OK if criminals in Illinois started offing law enforcement in Sickinois and offing law officers in Sickinois for trying to interfere with their right to commit crime.
Exactly has no authority to do so.
Especially out side the court house.
“”””The order also bans those civil arrests from being made when an individual is going to, attending or returning from a court proceeding “”””””
Good luck with that.
Judge Timothy Evans is a lame duck Chief Judge who was voted out by his fellow judges over a month ago. His term as Chief Judge is set to expire in six to eight weeks.
Evans is responsible for the lax policies that have permitted crime to flourish in Chicago as virtually nobody goes to jail in Cook County. He cooperated with Soros prosecutor Kim Foxx and Cook County Board President in letting criminals walk the streets before coming to trial.
Sorry, judge. The trial and any other crimes are not related. I can see why a participant in a trial might hesitate to do so if he believes he will be arrested for an unrelated crime, but that’s a problem with using any criminal in a trial.
Does that mean an ICE agent has a warrant in hand or that a warrant exists? Sounds like a hole in the plan.
State and municipal courts have exactly NO jurisdiction over immigration enforcement, per existing law and SCOTUS precedent. How is this garbage ruling then supposed to have any force at all?
This is an illegitimate liberal ploy to frustrate ICE enforcing the laws. Immigration cases are handled administratively and generally administrative warrants are used.
The leftists are insisting upon judicial warrants because they know damned well that the system does not typically include full blown judicial proceedings before a US District Court Judge.
.......”So a county judge can issue orders to federal law enforcement? I think not.”
Agree, but they’ll take it to court anyway.
If that idiot Evans wants to go according to common law, he needs to go to england. In this country statute law is the law of the land
They are invaders, not citizens in to pay a fine for jaywalking!
Ignore this idiot.
Dare him to do anything about it.
L
Who’s going to enforce the ruling?
Yeah that won’t work. Still US soil and illegal aliens have violated FEDERAL laws.
I encourage the good judge to enforce his order lol
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