Not sure what a surreply is, but the gist is that Tom Dart of Cook County is practicing uncivil disobedience to the law of the land.

Denny McCann, was run over and killed in June 2011, by an unlawfully present alien who had just completed a two-year term of probation for a 2009 DUI conviction.

The alien, Saul Chavez, was charged with felony aggravated driving under the influence, but was released by Dart from a Cook County jail in November 2011 despite an ICE immigration detainer.

In the lawsuit [McCann’s brother Brian] McCann asks the Circuit Court to compel Dart to comply with his legal duties to honor ICE detainers and to cooperate with federal immigration officials. It also asks the Circuit Court to declare the Cook County ordinance to be preempted by federal law.

Dart won’t deport the guy, claiming ICE is just “requesting” that he do so. To do it would give Dart a different sort of headline than he usually gets in Chicago.

Will mainstream media get really, really mad about this? Or just really mad? Just mad? Not really.

He’s their boy, after all, come on.

Our uncertain trumpet with his Onward [American] soldiers?

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I don’t think you’ve ever seen a greater display of indecision and ambivalence. Sometimes you can study ambiguity to scare the other guy to make it useful. With Nixon, it was said the Soviets though he was so potentially nuts that actually he deterred a lot of action because you never knew what he was going to do. But he could do damage and he could be decisive. With Obama, we’ve never seen that.

This fellow in the White House is no Henry V.