Pritzker: ICE Agents Should be Charged for Breaking State, Local Laws
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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Ah, there is no accounting for the reciprocal of insurrection. How is that not considered sedition?
“Sedition” is protected speech. All laws against it are unconstitutional, and have been since the 1790s. They’re void and unenforceable.
Someone didn’t get the memo…
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/four-additional-oath-keepers-sentenced-seditious-conspiracy-related-us-capitol-breach
Seditious conspiracy is not sedition. It’s a completely different crime, and a different law, and does not in any way consist of advocacy. Now tell me how you think Pritzker’s words, or anyone’s words, can constitute a seditious conspiracy
Pritzker states that he and unnamed others are looking at punishing federal officers for doing their jobs. This would prevent federal laws from being applied in Democrat Illinois, which constitutes a state of insurrection.
Stating that he is “looking at” something is not a conspiracy to commit a crime. It’s at most advocacy. Seditious conspiracy requires an actual conspiracy; an agreement to commit a crime, and an overt action in furtherance of that plan.
What we are talking about here is scooterjay’s suggestion that his words constitute not “seditious conspiracy” but “sedition”. And the fact is that sedition is protected speech, and all laws Congress has made against it are void. The Smith Act was struck down in the 1950s.
Pritzker is a disgusting bloated hog. Enjoy being governor you fat toad. You will never be president.
Please – know a lot of nice big Pigs – can be called Hogs I guess – so please don’t insult them by associating them with this cretin!
Porky Pritzker
See 28 U.S. Code § 1442 – Federal officers or agencies sued or prosecuted. Under Section a) 1. Federal officers or agencies sued or prosecuted by a State can remove the action to Federal District Court. At that point the US Attorney will control the prosecution.
To be clear the United States Attorney would immediately move to dismiss each and every case. The position of the Bondi Justice Department is that Federal Prosecutors must undertake the actual prosecution. Should those Motions fail, the US Attorney not State Prosecutors must conduct the prosecution. The Motions for Dismissal would be combined for adjudication by the Supreme Court. There were some scattered instances where State Prosecutors were allowed to prosecute in Federal Court. However such a full on attack implicates the Supremacy Clause. A valid argument could be made that the State is attempting to supplant Federal Law by strategically prosecuting multiple Federal Officers. Furthermore Think of Orville Farkas indicting Federal Agents for violating his State segregation laws. That would never have flown. Pritzker’s attempt won’t fly today.
Given that the feds walked sniper Lon Horiuchi right out of the Idaho courtroom where he was being tried for murdering Vicky Weaver, I give Pritzker less chance than a store window at a BLM convention.
It was murder. I think that he lined up Vicky and waited to pull the trigger to kill her and the guy running… a two-fer. A true professional would know what is behind the intended target. This as at about 100 yards. But he was… a Buddhist! As if that made a difference.
You were faster than I on making the same comment.
Pritzer channeling Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stevens, Ross Barnett, Orville Faubus and George Wallace. The Democrats have gone back to their confederate and Jim Crow ways of using violent mobs to sabotage the protection of federal law.
No crime problem in Illinois. It doesn’t happen in his neighborhood and only poor black areas suffer from it so why should he care. That is the governors disgusting attitude.
Federal immigration law? Who cares about that. Illinois doesn’t have to obey federal law. That is what Pritzker and Johnson are saying.
Oh, this deserves additional upvotes. Jack Lindsay was the example of Southern Democrat and not the exception.
I have a wonderful bit of dirt on the honorable Senator Lindsay that involves disguising a mob attempt to recoup money owed as a Black Panthers kidnapping attempt.
If the Illinois government officials want to play this stupid game, they’re going to win stupid prizes. Feds *do* have to obey local laws. For example, they need a state driver’s license from some state to drive a motor vehicle on public streets, if they speed while *not* at work, they’re getting a ticket, etc… Everybody knows how miserable the local law enforcement can make your life if you gather the ire of the local PD. Every stop sign is examined, every mile you travel is under radar, code enforcement finds a hundred things that need to be fixed, et al… If Pritzer tries this (censored), he’s going to find out the other end of the stick has more cattle digestive residue on it. Every federal dollar spent by his state entitles an audit of every spot it touches, every tax return with strange entries (like a 1.5 million dollar ‘gambling’ win) gets the full seven year every item and any companies you touch audit just to start.
He has chosen…poorly.
Title 10 says you’re a schumck.
Yeah, you do that Fat Man. Nothing says Supremacy Clause like some tard trying this route to stand up to The Man.
From Land of Lincoln to Fort Sumter.
I want Pritzker to overstep just a tiny bit so that fed can slam his fat ass into a orange jumpsuit, if they can find one that fits, and bury it in a federal pen. I don’t like the crap he and the other democrat governors/mayors are pulling. They are the undemocratic fascists they scream about.
I don’t think there’s anything he can do that can make him personally liable. The most he can do is give an illegal order, which won’t be obeyed.
All he can really do is talk big, which just makes him look like an idiot but isn’t a crime. The first amendment protects his right to make himself look stupid.
Found one!
These sorts of statements intended to throw red meat at the loony leftist wokiesta base need be taken seriously. Start treating them as ‘admissions against interest’ to help buttress future legal disputes and in any potential future civil or even criminal charges against these goons who want to nullify Federal Law.
Commercials for when he attempts to run for president although I expect he’ll never get the nomination because he’s Jewish.
Can we put prickzer up on charges over the infringements of the 2A in illnoise?
Asking for America.
No, we can’t. The laws are invalid, and will eventually be struck down and made unenforceable, though it’s taking far too long. But the legislators and the governor have no liability for them.
It should be illegal for Pritzker to go to Olive Garden for endless pasta dishes, soup, salad and breadsticks.
You go now, you be here 4 hour
I miss John Pinette.
After beating addiction and obesity (lost 200 lbs!), he still died of having been fat.
His restaurant routine was epically funny. People should look it up on youtube
His routine about the chinese buffet. Or gluten free stuff, all the taste is in the gluten might as well eat cardboard. I fell out of my chair.
Pritzker can and should be charged for breaking federal laws.
Insurrection and promoting violence against federal officers.
No, he can’t be. He hasn’t broken any laws, and his speech is protected by the first amendment as well as by the tenth. He has not committed any insurrection, and “promoting violence” is protected speech.
Bottom line. The is straight up neo-Confederate claptrap. One can only imagine how the Lying Democrat Hacks and Cretins in the Establishment Media would have reacted if some Republican Governor had said such a thing during the reign of His Wonderfulness and Bringer of Light, Emperor Obama or Slow Joe – the Slug. They would have had big old conniption fits. But this bloated lying demagogue blathers these lines – and they coo like syncophanitic Democrat liars.
Always knew about this lying whale, but now I am seeing him up close. One of the most despicable and loathsome humans (calling him that is a stretch) I have ever seen. Disgusting and nauseating, just to look at. And think of all the clueless fools and hate filled Marxist types that voted for this ‘fool.’ Every time I think this lying blob has hit bottom, said the most egregious thing possible – he always tops himself. Now I’ll tell you what I really think. Haha!
A final thought. This vile clown is starting to sound like John C. Calhoun! I wonder if ‘bright boy Prickster’ even knows who he was. Yep, since he is such a hard core secessionist Confederate now – maybe we should call him “Pricky Reb!”
It’s State and local officials who need to be varied for breaking Federal law.
Try and secede from the Union if you don’t like the Feds in your state.
You stupid, stupid man
So every video I have seen of a federal agent tossing tear gas out of a vehicle there just happened to be a crowd hammering on the vehicle and trying to stop it from passing. Even a state court would have a hard time convicting a federal agent of trying to get people who seemed like they were trying to harm them away from the car. It is just like the Greta and Israel thing. They say it happened but despite hours of video from the protests they cannot show it to anyone.
The bottom line here is that Pritzker is entitled to say these things, but he knows he can’t do them. Illinois state and local officers know very well that any order they get to interfere with federal law enforcement will be illegal, and that obeying such an order would get them arrested, so they won’t do it.
If any do try to do this, and get arrested, and a US Attorney tries to charge him with conspiracy, his defense would be “Sure, I told him to throw that guy off the roof. I didn’t think he’d be so stupid as to actually do it!!!!”