By Jack Tomczuk<\/p>\n
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner<\/a> is co-founding a coalition of local prosecutors to support efforts to prosecute U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and other federal agents accused of criminal wrongdoing.<\/p>\n The organization is raising money and plans to convene in early February to strategize and share best practices, representatives said. Eight other district attorneys have signed onto the project, including Mary Moriarty, the top prosecutor in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n The group is known as Fight Against Federal Overreach, or FAFO, a play on the phrase \u2018f\u2013k around and find out,\u2019 which Krasner often deploys or hints at when speaking about the Trump administration.<\/p>\n \u201cWe find ourselves in a moment when one of the most potent tools, one of the most effective tools to try to preserve democracy in the United States is state prosecutors,\u201d Krasner said. “Why? Well, simply because, despite the misinformation you have heard from the mouth of the vice president, we do have the ability to bring state criminal charges against federal officials, federal officers and to prosecute those cases to conclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n Moriarty did not appear at an announcement Wednesday morning, held over Zoom, though she was scheduled to speak. Krasner, perhaps the most outspoken critic of the Trump administration\u2019s immigration policies among elected leaders in Philadelphia, was first to address press and supporters who logged into the teleconference.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe all know what time it is,\u201d he added. \u201cWe all know what this moment is, and we all know that things are happening that should not be happening, for which people must be accountable, now or in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n The White House\u2019s \u201cRapid Response\u201d account on X, formerly Twitter, featured a clip from the news conference and called it a plan to launch \u201ca lawfare campaign against immigration agents.\u201d The post referred to Krasner as \u201ca seriously deranged individual.\u201d<\/p>\n Soros-backed Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner convenes a Zoom call with other Radical Democrat prosecutors to plan a lawfare campaign against immigration agents.<\/p>\n This is a seriously deranged individual. pic.twitter.com\/ue0BEyGhy6<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 28, 2026<\/a> \t<\/p>\n Krasner had gone viral hours earlier for his comments Tuesday, during a briefing about the proposed \u201cICE Out\u201d legislation<\/a> in City Council, that ICE agents would be hunted down to answer for their crimes after Trump leaves office, like Nazis following the Second World War.<\/p>\n The DA\u2019s quote attracted particular scorn from conservative influencers, and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt took to X to inquire over whether the media would demand fellow Democrats denounce Krasner.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udea8Democrats are calling federal law enforcement agents \u201cnazis\u201d who need to be \u201chunted.\u201d Will the media ask Dems to condemn?<\/p>\n \u201cIf we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades\u2026we will find your identities!\u201d – Philly DA Larry Krasner pic.twitter.com\/Jhkld7utMg<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) January 28, 2026<\/a> \t<\/p>\n In addition to Krasner and Moriarty, the FAFO coalition, so far, includes prosecutors based in Austin, Dallas, Tucson and several localities in Virginia.<\/p>\n