Cracks Appear in Illinois

Elected sheriffs are starting to refuse to enforce Fatass's Executive Orders, seeing as how they aren't actual laws passed by a legislative body:

• Kane County Sheriff Ron Hain issued a news release this morning (Thursday, May 14, 2020) stating his position that the Sheriff’s Office will not take enforcement action against any person or entity that violates Gov. JB Pritzker’s stay-at-home order and other executive orders.
  
  Hain said members of the community are becoming “anxious to return to some normalcy,” and the Sheriff’s Office has received numerous inquiries about how it will respond to apparent violations of the governor’s executive orders.
  
  “It is clear that deputies do not have immunity if they attempt to enforce the orders, and there is no legislated law that applies to the violation of the orders,” Hain said. “Therefore, sheriff’s deputies will not be taking enforcement action against any one person or entity for order violations, without the issuance of a judicial order.
  
  Hain said U.S. Attorney General William Barr made a clear statement that the Constitution is not suspended in a state of emergency.

He's not alone:

• Opposition to Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's coronavirus shutdown has intensified across parts of the suburbs and beyond, as elected officials try to sever their fates from that of Chicago and Cook County.
  
  Officials in some towns and counties have asked to be considered separately from the big city, arguing that they have many fewer cases and deaths from COVID-19, and deserve to reopen businesses and gatherings sooner.
  
  Grundy County Sheriff Ken Briley went a step further, saying he was refusing to enforce the governor's executive order. He said he had neither the authority nor the desire to cite or arrest people for holding weddings or graduation parties.
  
  "Ladies and gentlemen, we are not Cook County," Briley wrote on the sheriff's Facebook page. "We are a rural community who believes in freedom, the rule of law, and (we) support the Constitution."

You might think that this is a big deal...and it is. But guess who isn't covering this?

If you click on the links we provided, you'll notice that these are not mainstream media stories. These are small town papers covering willful disobedience to an out-of-control executive branch and unconstrained by the legislature or the courts. The big name media won't touch this at all because they're in the pocket of the Illinois combine.

Someone posted a comment that this is solely the reason that Madigan is about to have Putzker call the legislature back into session. Not a single bill having to do with the COVID "pandemic" will be permitted to get near the floor for votes however. This session is simply to give away power to Putzker so that his one-man-rule has a veneer of legitimacy, granted by the current super-majorities in Springfield.

We salute these Sheriffs as true patriotic Americans and hope more follow their examples.

UPDATE: California, too, with a good zinger:

• Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said Tuesday that she would not be able to enforce Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home orders because she was too busy re-arresting accused criminals set free under the state’s new “zero-dollar bail” policy.

Sounds like what's happening now across Illinois.