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.