Chicago Police Chief: ‘Federal Agents Are Officers’ – Breitbart

“Let me make this CLEAR! Federal agents, ICE, HSI, are officers,” Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling said during an October 2025 press conference. “They are agents of law enforcement. … We cannot become a society where we just decide to take everything in our own hands and start to commit crimes against law enforcement!” The comment stands in stark contrast to comments made Saturday night by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who strongly stated that federal agents are not law enforcement.

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Column: Social-justice law again raising concerns about public safety – Champaign News-Gazette

Jim Dey: “A member of the legislative committee of the State’s Attorney’s Association, (Champaign County State’s Attorney Julia) Rietz is among those pressing for changes. She wants to broaden ‘the detention net,’ in other words, to expand the list of offenses where detention is permitted. Rietz also wants to permit judges to detain individuals who were previously released but violated their release terms.”

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Where will Barack Obama’s chairs from the Illinois Senate go? Not his presidential center.- Chicago Tribune/Yahoo

Under state law, these chairs would have eventually been auctioned off or destroyed had Illinois lawmakers not had the foresight to pass a 2014 law allowing the secretary of the senate to donate objects used by Obama to museums or the presidential museum. “Basically, I think it would be a good idea for us to donate the furniture we have from former Sen. Obama to the presidential library rather than sell his seat. Someone tried that, and it didn’t work out so well for him,” then-Democratic Senate President John Cullerton, said at the time.

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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson takes jab at Clarence Thomas while defending city’s reparations task force – FOX News

“Yeah, I’m not aware of anything that Clarence Thomas has ever done that has benefited Black people,” Johnson replied to a reporter who read from a court opinion. “I mean, you read something, but there’s no evidence that anything that the Justice has ever done on behalf of the interests of Black people, or even marginalized people in general.”

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Chicago Judge ends anti-ICE case, jumps into IL Dems’ bid to freeze ICE – Legal Newsline

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis appears to have replaced a prior case brought by anti-ICE activists and journalists with a new one, after keeping the prior case alive just long enough to allow her to also claim the authority to preside over a new, more sweeping lawsuit brought by Illinois Democrats who are seeking to win a court order essentially shutting down ICE’s current operations statewide.

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