Judge Lindsey Jenkins auditions for part in Lawfare 2.0, Resistance 2.0

It's getting exceptionally annoying watching U.S. district court judge after U.S. district court judge turn themselves into Legal laughingstocks just so they can maintain their standing with their fellow Democrats. That's what Judge Lindsey Jenkins did when she creatively manufactured a right that didn't exist before. Politico is reporting that "A federal judge has thrown out the Trump administration’s bid to force Illinois and Chicago to aid its mass deportation agenda, saying it would encroach on autonomy guaranteed to states under the Constitution."

First, the Trump administration isn't requesting Illinois's or Chicago's help. They just want Brandon Johnson and J.B. Pritzker to stay out of ICE's way when they're making their deportation raids. Next, the Tenth Amendment doesn't have anything to do with immigration. If ICE wants to deputize local police to help, that's fine. Otherwise, deportations have nothing to do with the Tenth Amendment. Deportations are strictly a federal matter.

I don't know what Judge Jenkins meant when she wrote that "...federal laws 'permit' states to cooperate with the federal government on immigration enforcement, but do not require it. Therefore, states can’t be forced to partner with federal efforts, she said..." If I got paid $100 each time Tom Homan said he didn't care if he got local help, that all he wanted was for Brandon Johnson or other big city mayor to stay out of his way, I would've built a nice little nest egg. Homan said that ICE "will flood the zone" in sanctuary cities:

They wouldn't need to do that if ICE got cooperation from local police departments. Judge Jenkins' ruling is simply part of Lawfare 2.0 and Resistance 2.0. Democrats want to delay these deportations and then hope to get a Democrat majority in either the House or Senate or both.

An Illinois state law passed in 2021 and related policies prohibit local and state officials from sharing any person’s custody status, release date, or contact information with federal immigration officials.

The Justice Department argued those measures were preempted by federal law, but Jenkins rejected that argument as well as the Trump administration’s claims that the state law unconstitutionally discriminated against the federal government. She also said the administration’s effort to coerce the state to carry out federal immigration policy could impose impermissible costs on the states.

First, that Illinois law is irrelevant. The Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution takes precedence over state laws. Period. Full Stop. Next, Judge Jenkins should take an evening and read the Constitution and familiarize herself with it. Judge Jenkins either isn't familiar with the Constitution or she's corrupt. The third possibility is that she's an outcomes-based judge, which is almost as bad as being corrupt.

The judge also found that the Justice Department had no legal basis for naming Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker as a defendant in the suit and said DOJ lawyers "openly" conceded as much. She ordered him dismissed from the case.

That'll last less than a NY split-second. How can Jenkins say that Gov. J.B. Pritzker shouldn't be part of the lawsuit? He's the knucklehead who signed the bill into law. It's time to get rid of Judge Jenkins before she makes other unconstituional rulings.