JB Pritzker

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, in a newly reported interview with the New York Times, calls for Democrats to build a formal 'Project 2029' policy blueprint that would include criminal and civil prosecutions of Trump administration officials and federal agents he says have 'broken the law' if Democrats regain the White House in 2028. Pritzker frames the effort as necessary to 'restore the rule of law,' explicitly telling interviewer Lulu Garcia-Navarro that he is 'talking about the people in this administration who’ve broken the law and federal agents who’ve broken the law' and that they should be 'criminally prosecuted, civilly prosecuted, whatever it is that we can do.' The Fox article situates his remarks against his ongoing clashes with Trump over immigration enforcement, including his lawsuit against the deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago that produced a temporary restraining order from U.S. District Judge April Perry and was ultimately upheld by the Supreme Court, prompting the administration to withdraw the troops. It also notes separate litigation over alleged misconduct by federal agents during Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago, where protesters claim tear gas and force violated their constitutional rights, highlighting the concrete disputes Pritzker appears to have in mind. The comments feed a wider online debate over whether Democrats should mirror the right’s Heritage-backed 'Project 2025' playbook by planning explicit legal retaliation against officials of the current administration, and whether such talk represents a defense of accountability or a blueprint for tit-for-tat criminalization of politics.