Chicago City Wire

Chicago attorney John Heiderscheidt is bashing the legacy of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx after she announced she will not be running for re-election after two terms in office.

“Foxx's reform efforts are not totally meritless,” Heiderscheidt said on Twitter. “But on the whole, this has been the worst administrator of CCSAO in its long history. No serious criminal law practitioner disagrees. ‘Colloquial recusal’, ‘mutual combat’, covering up a DV she committed on her spouse, astronomical crime increases, posing for insta glam shots w/ stone cold killers. All contributing to 100k outmigration in 1 yr. Can't wait for this sideshow to formally end.” 

Former federal prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Justice Tom Hogan slammed Foxx’s record in 2022. Hogan placed Foxx on the list he published in City Journal of the nation’s worst prosecutors.

“Kim Foxx, if you look at her record, first of all, we always look to see how his violence doing in any place where someone is the chief prosecutor,” Hogan told Chicago Mornings Answer’s Amy Jacobson. "You guys are obviously experiencing a tremendous spike in homicides and shootings, and prosecutors like to claim credit when crime goes down. Well, they have to take some blame when crime goes up and Kim Foxx, the prosecution strategies, her refusal to prosecute certain crimes or refusal to sentence hard is one of the main reasons that she makes the list.” 

Hogan noted one infamous gang shootout in which one was killed. Foxx initially refused all charges calling the incident “mutual combat,” but later conceded to only charge gang members with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. He also noted Foxx’s “refusal to prosecute there just based on race really.”

Foxx was accused of violating the "Code of Professional Responsibility” in her handling of the Jussie Smollet case in which the actor was accused of staging a “racist” attack on himself. Foxx’s office said when she “recused’ herself it was a “colloquial use of the term” and that she was still connected to the case. The Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission did not pursue an investigation into Foxx in that case.

State Rep. Tom Morrison (R-Palatine) called the handling of the Smollet case a “disgrace.”

"It’s obvious to everyone that Foxx and her office treated him differently simply because of his powerful friends and celebrity,” Morrison told North Cook News in 2022.

Foxx has had her own issues with alleged criminal conduct. In June 2022 police were called to her residence for a domestic violence case in which she was accused of slapping her husband over more than two decades Kelley Foxx. Kelley Foxx reported the incident to the police.

"This is a personal family matter, and we ask that you provide our family with respect and privacy,” the two said in a press release following the incident, ABC7 Chicago reported.