Threading the Needle
O'Neill-Burke was in a difficult spot. As part of the demo-socialist-communist party, she was under orders to fight everything Trump in service of the party....like a cult.
But being a somewhat intelligent person who knows more of the Law than most, she was hesitant to but into the brainwashed response that blue-state $hitholes are running with.
She was therefore judged to be insufficiently insurrection-y and was taking a beating in the media. So now she has released a "blueprint" for "accountability" that gets her some cover from the left while couching it in terms that might fool stupid people, but broadcasts to the Feds that there won't be much she can actually do:
The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office unveiled a sweeping new protocol Thursday to pursue criminal charges against federal immigration agents who use unlawful force, but a close reading of the document makes clear that actually prosecuting a federal agent in state court faces enormous legal obstacles that could prevent any case from ever reaching a jury.
State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke said her office adopted the Federal Immigration Enforcement Action Response Protocol to prepare for what she called an unprecedented situation: the possibility of bringing state felony charges against a federal immigration officer for on-duty conduct. The protocol’s development was prompted, Burke’s office said, by an immigration surge in Minneapolis in which agents fatally shot two civilians in separate incidents.
“No one is above the law — including both ICE agents and prosecutors,” Burke said in a statement. “If a federal law enforcement agent commits a crime, my office will not hesitate to act, in accordance with state law.”
But the new six-page protocol devotes significant space to cataloguing the very legal doctrines that could make the prosecution of a federal agent nearly impossible and candidly acknowledges at least some of those limitations.
It's a nice attempt, but she should expect a number of primary challengers in a few years.
Labels: county, national politics
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
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I’m glad I didn’t vote for her in the general election. When she won the primary and said something to the effect of; I’m not going to be though on crime. I said she leaves me know choice. I voted republican.
It’s refreshing to have someone with a brain hold that office.
Yup, threaded that needle and did so beautifully. She is in a no win spot and yet schooled any crazed moron who doesn't understand the law. She obviously does. Let the challengers come, she has, in this one action, shown she knows the law and she has the spine to act accordingly and do so with grace. She may be the only one standing between us and total madness. I don't see any other political leader doing so.
Federal Immigration Enforcement Action Response Protocal. FIEARP. would that be the equivalent of FUBAR?
Let's see how many REAL criminals she is able to put in jail.
"no one is above the law..." ... heh.
You mean like the psycho who rammed her car into the ICE Agent and tried to kill him while attempting escape from arrest?
Or the lunatic ICU Nurse who kicked out tail lights, fought with ICE Agents, and then brought a gun to a protest? Where some other lunatic yelled "GUN" and the ICU lunatic ended up getting shot?
Them? Those are the examples of the kinds of things we're trying to prevent by arresting ICE Agents? LOL...
How about we send the Feds in to arrest every.single.one of the insurrectionists who proposed, promoted, and voted for this unconstitutional bullshit? I could get behind *that*.
God Bless our ICE & Border Patrol Agents
A lot of grandstanding here. I guarantee you when push comes to shove no one in Illinois will be able to prosecute any federal law enforcement agent at the state level.
and let's see if the democRAT politicians ask for the criminals to be locked up at the bud billiken parade or the downtown rioting or the car jackings,,etc,,etc,,etc,,,
You apparently missed the entire point of this post.
Never forget, she's one of them. Or she wouldn't be there.
Comrades. The party is in absolute control. Democrat socialists control the legislatures, the executive branch, the judges who will here your opposition lawsuits, all taxing authorities, the public education corporations and LLC's, all governmental investigative agencies from top to bottom, all government funded NGO's, the established law industry and their professional "legal" organizations, all downtown law firms, your tax revenues, vote tabulation processes from top to bottom and the "independent" eyeballs and mouthpieces doing business as the media. As Chuck Schumer (D-Soviet Satellite N.Y.) once opined cooperative democrat operatives have "Have Six Ways From Sunday Of Getting Back At You". Remain oppressed and subjugated and pay your fair share making this all possible.
For anyone who's ever seen the film My Favorite Year...
"Now y'see Sy? This kid's got BAWLS!!"
Democrats and the law are like oil and water.
You can’t guarantee anything and the Dems already talking about at a future date(when Trump leaves offense) and Burke might be gone. Times will change
“…though on crime. (and) …know choice.” says a lot about YOU
100%!
100%!
I wish the democrats had as much interest in locking up law enforcement at all levels when it comes to addressing predatory CTA attackers, any and all of the 48 homicide offenders thus far in 2026 in Chicago alone, the organized car jacking crews, dare I say political corruption, public entitlement fraud, justice for the 202 person shot and wounded in this city, baby Capone wildings on the public way complete with gunfire, looting and property destruction as well as all the assorted violent crimes perpetuated against residents across Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. Loyalty for democrat socialists is to the party and its power-not to the citizens. I say Chicago has a massive crime problem not a law enforcement response dealing with this city's criminal entrepreneurs young and old, citizen and illegal criminal invaders alike.
Burke will be fine.
Don’t give a fuck what she does. Only question I have of her is will she fund our pension if she becomes mayor?
I retired and moved the fuck out. I realized we were outnumbered by the stupid in Chicago and that state. Fuck them and fuck them all...
Same here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSX-0NQ0y18
Added for context/entertainment
Another guy that's bragging on how he wasted his vote. And your paper must be fun to read.
I know it would cause ICE to have many more Agents for these missions, but there should be arrest teams and wagon/detention vans staged close by, and they should move in when Agents get surrounded, battered, obstructed, and make mass arrests of these assholes. Any asshole that puts hands on an Agent should go. Once that starts happening, some of these knuckleheads will think twice.
She is a lot better than what was there before is all I’m saying.
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