The president is temporarily blocked from federalizing the Illinois National Guard or deploying any Guard units in the state.
A federal judge in Chicago Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from federalizing the Illinois National Guard or deploying any Guard units in the state, saying there was growing evidence that the administration’s “perceptions of events are simply unreliable” and the addition of troops to anti-ICE protests would “only add fuel to the fire” that Trump officials “themselves have started.”
Chicago protests against President Donald Trump’s National Guard deployment.
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A federal judge in Chicago Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from federalizing the Illinois National Guard or deploying any Guard units in the state, saying there was growing evidence that the administration’s “perceptions of events are simply unreliable” and the addition of troops to anti-ICE protests would “only add fuel to the fire” that Trump officials “themselves have started.”
