Attorney General Pam Bondi has put Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), San Francisco D.A. Brooke Jenkins, Gov. JB Pritzker (D-Ill.) and others on notice that she will charge them if they violate the nation’s laws protecting federal officers.
“We will charge them. And, if they think I won’t, they haven’t met me,” Bondi vowed Thursday in an interview discussing Democrats threatening U.S. immigration agents with Fox News Channel’s Jesse Watters:
"If you are telling people to arrest our ICE offices, federal agents, you cannot do that. You're impeding an investigation. We will charge them. And, if they think I won’t, they haven’t met me.”
What’s more, “You cannot disclose the identity of a federal agent, where they live, anything that can harm them,” the U.S. attorney general explained, reporting that her office has warned outspoken Democrat politicians they’ll be prosecuted if they break these laws:
“Pelosi got a letter today from Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, so did Brooke Jenkins, that D.A. in San Francisco. We told them, ‘Preserve your emails, preserve everything you have on this topic because if you are telling people to arrest our ICE offices, our federal agents, you cannot do that. You're impeding an investigation.’”
“We will protect our federal agents,” Attorney General Bondi promised. “During a shutdown, these [federal officers] are out there working to keep Californians safe, yet you’ve got Pelosi out there saying to obstruct their investigation. You can’t do it.”
“And we’re going to investigate her, now, as well as that D.A. – and Pritzker’s on the list, too, Bondi said.
“The Department of Justice will not tolerate threats, intimidation, or interference with federal officers,” Bondi warned in a Justice Department post on social media, singling out California Democrats at the end:
“To California’s elected leaders: do not weaponize your police forces for politics. Ordering or directing state or local officers to act against federal agents risks violating federal law and endangering public safety. Focus your resources where they belong—on the violent crime, fentanyl, and gang activity plaguing California’s streets. Let there be no mistake: federal law will be enforced; federal authority will be upheld. This Department of Justice is committed to Making America Safe Again.” — Attorney General Pam Bondi & Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche”
“Careful, @GovPritzker - this applies to you too. Federal law. Federal authority. Federal consequence,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche warned the Democrat Illinois governor in a social media post introducing the text of the letter sent to Pelosi and her California cohorts.
Careful, @GovPritzker - this applies to you too.
— Todd Blanche (@DAGToddBlanche) October 23, 2025
Federal law. Federal authority. Federal consequences. 🇺🇸 https://t.co/9o0eFcEuyP
Rep. Pelosi has publicly threatened federal immigration officers with arrest if they attempt to detain illegal immigrants in San Francisco.
“Anyone who places a bounty—figurative or real—on the head of a federal officer, whether directed by gang leaders or by California state or local officials, will be held accountable.
— U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) October 23, 2025
The Department of Justice will not tolerate threats, intimidation, or interference with federal…
Democrats, like former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, have been calling for people to “unmask” (dox) federal agents, potentially endangering them by publicizing their names, homes and whereabouts.
The Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution subordinates all state and local laws to federal law.
