Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker isn’t just fighting the Trump administration in court. He wants to put them behind bars.
Speaking to the New York Times, Pritzker laid out his vision for what he’s calling “Project 2029” — a Democratic policy blueprint explicitly designed as a counter to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. The centerpiece of his pitch: prosecute Trump officials the moment Democrats retake the White House.
“We’ve got to restore the rule of law, and that means holding people accountable who’ve broken the law,” Pritzker told the Times. “I’m talking about the people in this administration who’ve broken the law and federal agents who’ve broken the law.”
When reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro pressed him on whether that meant criminal charges, he didn’t flinch.
“Criminally prosecuted, civilly prosecuted,” Pritzker said. “Whatever it is that we can do.”
Fox News Digital asked his office to clarify who exactly he had in mind. The response pointed to a January press release his office put out targeting officials involved in Operation Midway Blitz, a federal immigration enforcement push in Chicago. The list includes White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, “Border Czar” Tom Homan, former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, former Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, acting ICE Director Tom Lyons, CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott, and Corey Lewandowski, who served as a special government employee for DHS.
Pritzker’s office accused each of them of driving “the escalation of aggressive enforcement tactics” inside Illinois.
The governor has been tangling with the Trump White House on immigration for months. He filed suit last October over the National Guard deployment to Chicago, calling it unconstitutional. A federal judge sided with him temporarily, the Supreme Court upheld that decision, and federal troops eventually left Illinois in January.
