*UPDATE* Illinois Sues Trump to Stop National Guard Deployment
President Donald Trump wanted to send the Texas National Guard to Illinois.
*UPDATE*
Judge April Perry refused to issue a temporary restraining order:
Judge April Perry ruled that she would not block the deployment of troops from Illinois and Texas at this time, stating that she needed lengthy court filings. Perry gave the Department of Justice until midnight on Wednesday to respond to the lawsuit which was filed on Monday morning.
Oral arguments in the matter will be held on Thursday. Attorneys representing the federal government told the judge that National Guard troops could be arriving as early as Monday and could be in position for their assignment as early as Tuesday.
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Here we go again.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have sued the Trump administration to stop the deployment of the National Guard to Chicago.
President Donald Trump wanted to send the Texas National Guard to Illinois.
Defendants’ deployment of federalized troops to Illinois is patently unlawful. Plaintiffs ask this court to halt the illegal, dangerous, and unconstitutional federalization of members of the National Guard of the United States, including both the Illinois and Texas National Guard. Because this federalization is patently pretextual and baseless, Defendants cannot satisfy any of the three prerequisites for involuntarily federalizing any of the National Guard of the United States under 10 U.S.C. § 12406. Not only have the defendants acted outside the authority of 10 U.S.C. § 12406, but their conduct also violates the Posse Comitatus Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, and, of paramount concern, several provisions of the U.S. Constitution.
“To the extent that Defendants have offered any basis at all to deploy the military to Illinois, it is based on a flimsy pretext: protests outside a two-story ICE processing facility in Broadview, a suburb of Chicago with less than 8,000 residents,” the lawsuit claims. “But far from promoting public safety in the Chicago region, Defendants’ provocative and arbitrary actions have threatened to undermine public safety by inciting a public outcry.”
Ugh. Broadview doesn’t have less than 8,000 residents. It has fewer than 8,000 residents.
How many states have sued the administration? I’ve lost count. Has it only been California, Oregon, and also DC?
Either way, the one in California is still moving through the courts.
Late Sunday night, a judge issued a temporary restraining order on Trump’s decision to send the California National Guard to Portland, OR.
The judge said Trump’s order “appears to violate both 10 U.S.C. §12406 and the Tenth Amendment.”
I have a feeling the judge in the Illinois case will make a similar decision.
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“Ugh. Broadview doesn’t have less than 8,000 residents. It has fewer than 8,000 residents.”
Grammar mechanics aside….do 8,000 people just not matter? Why is that even a part of the argument? I guess smaller areas aren’t worth protecting because they aren’t the big bad city. Also, I guess terrorists are completely immobile and can’t migrate from one area to another.
Good to see they have their priorities straight. They apparently want the people they love so much to suffer. They are about suffering and diverting from themselves because that is their self-interest. Public service is their calling.
Someone needs to read Title 10.
It would seem to me that the path of least resistance for Democrat elected officials would be to cooperate in such a way that keeps the issue below the radar and not to inflame tensions or escalate the issue beyond where we are now.
But democrats are evil and stupid in equal measure.
The situation on the ground will continue to deteriorate while this moves through the courts.
And because this is being contested on emotion (“I HATE THE BAD ORANGE MAN!”) instead of the clear reading of the law, they will lose (again) but by then it will take a multiple of the original number of troops to regain control of the situation.
The Democrats are not going to stand idly by and allow Trump to dismantle their massive political machine. The center of the Dem Machine is the illegal aliens and the NGOs who support them. They are freaking out, which is exactly what you should expect.
The less/fewer prescriptive rules are bogus. 8000 is less than 8001.
If it sounds okay, it’s okay. That gives rise to a descriptive grammar for your dialect. Rules for what doesn’t sound wrong in your dialect. It’s what foreigners can never quite master but native speakers don’t even notice.
“Fewer” is for countable nouns, which “resident” is.
“Less” is for uncountable nouns.
You may view it as pedantic, but sloppiness and imprecision with language is but one of the tools the left has utilized to push their agenda.
“No less than 100 people were present.”
You can be wrong as often as you so choose, which you have chosen to be so often.
Hardin blamed Jews for Charlie Kirk’s murder. He should be shunned and barred from posting anywhere.
Is wrong.
“No fewer than 100 people.”
Repeating an error doesn’t make it right.
Sometimes you’re talking about the number itself and sometimes you’re talking about the people. It’s not always distinguishable. 98 is less than 100, not fewer.
No less than 100 is talking about the number pretty definitely, so falls into number-talk.
The hazy line turns prescriptivists into morons.
Nope. “No less than 100” is correct. But as soon as you add the word “people” at the end, it becomes “no fewer“.
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/commonly-confused-words/fewer-vs-less/
Traditional prescriptive grammar gets a lot of things wrong, by being a faulty analysis of what’s going on. Diagramming sentences is extremely handy later for learning Latin but it’s a bad analysis of English grammar.
Example: “For him to say that is ridiculous;” Why “him” and not “he”? It’s because “him” is the subject of a non-finite verb “to say” (a verb not carrying tense), and subjects of non-finite verbs are in the objective case in English. What about being the object of “for”? (conventional analysis) It’s in no sense the object of “for” as far as what’s going on is concerned. The role of “for” is as a marker of the subject of a to-infinitive.
Called descriptive grammar.
The out-of-control rioting has given ample reason to send in troops to calm the situation down. The communists really love their criminals, they seem willing to fight for them.
I’d think the fact that the state and city has made it clear to the violent, unhinged, activists that it’s open season on Fed officers, would be proof of the need for the National Guard. Once again, democrats are willing to go to war for cheap labor.
They got to has their slaves
It isn’t cheap labor for the Dems; it’s illegal voters and inflating the census numbers for representation in Congress.
For the GOP, it’s the cheap labor and the depressive effect that slave wages have on all wages.
Both sides love them some illegals.
Wall Street funds the D Party, only a few % fund R’s.
Ditto the leadership of our nation’s fortune 500 companies.
The businesses that hire illegal aliens because it is cheaper than hiring Americans are, by far, the D Party’s greatest source of revenue.
So, yes, illegal aliens are cheap labor for the Democrats.
The political divide today is very different that it was half a century ago. American workers are the R Party’s base. Elites, both private sector and public sector, and welfare recipients are the D Party’s base.
That’s why the “country club” Republicans are dinosaurs. That class of people are liberal Democrats now.
There is a document issued by the Executive Branch of the Federal government on April 15, 1861 that is becoming possibly more and more relevant.
Subotai Bahadur
I was in my teens and living in my native Alabama when the National Guard was federalized to enforce desegregation laws in many places, including but certainly not limited to the University of Alabama. It was all over the nightly news and was the front page story in The Birmingham News for weeks.
Not supposed to federalize the National Guard for law enforcement? I call bull on that.
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Damn. If only Gov Wallace had thought of those arguments
“Ugh. Broadview doesn’t have less than 8,000 residents. It has fewer than 8,000 residents.”
And even less than that when it reigns.
Ok. Have ICE start using up armored HMMWV with M240B and M19 mounted to secure their vehicle convoys and set a perimeter around their operations. Either local LEO, the NG or crew served weapons gonna create the security buffer needed to safely and securely conduct interior immigration enforcement mission. Seems like Chicago leadership is choosing crew served weapons by attempting to halt/delay the other less vigorous options.
Given the lack of local cooperation in Chicago perhaps pulling all the TSA folks from the airport would be in order. Gonna need them to redeploy to Federal buildings since the Mayor is trying to stop use of any property as a staging area for ICE … Sucks that this will interrupt Postal Services cause gonna have to use those facilities. I’m sure all the business in Chicago will totes understand the temporary interruption to these services until ICE completes its mission in Chicago.
Would any inconvenience of shutting down Postal service last more than a week? Between package delivery companies and the Internet…
Sure, Post Offices also take Passport applications, sell money orders and other services not offered elsewhere. Then there’s the little problem with the airport not being functional what with TSA personnel withdrawn to secure the Post Offices.If more mayhem occurs involving Federal employees then the remaining Federal activities within Cook County would need to be shutdown, perhaps even Statewide. SSA offices, Federal Courts (b/c the US Marshals and other security would have to be reassigned to backstop the TSA guys at the closed Post Offices), would need to reassign the Air traffic control and other FAA personnel to other locations, The post offices are just one domino in an entire series that would tumble over…..
Shut down passenger traffic at O’Hare? Yes, that would get their attention but it would also come back and bite the whole country.
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I’m sure there’s plenty of airports that would like to take some of that traffic away from Chicago. Of course if things continue to escalate the safety of ALL Federal employees would require withdrawal of …well ALL Federal employees; so all FAA/ATC, shutting down air to both passenger and freight, AMTRAK obviously and since inspectors and regulators would potentially be at risk ….gotta shut down freight rail as well, gee same for all commercial trucking as DoT gotta be safe, SSA offices, Post Offices, in fact just make a big cordon around Cook County to be sure to be able to contain the violence ….as a first step to evaluate whether the entire State of Illinois needs the same. Since the Fed Govt is ‘shutdown’ anyway …no whining.
Sending the Texas NG into Illinois is some three-dimensional GO by Trump. Chinese emperors used to quell “unrest” in villages by sending in troops purposely chosen from entirely different villages who had nothing in common with them, and sometimes even were rivals.
Soviet troops were never tasked to serve in their home provinces.
GuardianUK: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/05/blue-states-democrats-trump
Blue states should come together to declare an emergency. Here’s how
States opposed to Trump can create a compact – a new prototype for American government – even if it’s perceived as political theater
… of course, it’s a neo-confederacy, with British help
I swear I’ve seen this movie before
If they’re going to hold an insurrection, it would be truly nice of them all to assemble in one place at the same time. Makes the mop-up easier.
8000? Is there an invisible barrier that is preventing people around the city to come and also riot?
What a silly argument.
Only one of the three thugs that Kyle Rittenhouse shot was actually from Kenosha.
chiraq looking to set up a violent showdown between feds and locals
“We will not tolerate ICE agents violating our residents’ constitutional rights nor will we allow the federal government to disregard our local authority. ICE agents are detaining elected officials, tear-gassing protestors, children, and Chicago police officers, and abusing Chicago residents. We will not stand for that in our city,” said Mayor Brandon Johnson. “With this Executive Order, Chicago stands firm in protecting the Constitutional rights of our residents and immigrant communities and upholding our democracy.”
https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/mayor/press_room/press_releases/2025/october/city-property-executive-order.html
Democrats need someone to die so they can propagandise their dear for their political benefit. They are all in on this crazy train!! The sad thing is they will eventually get that death because their followers are literally deranged enough to do stupid things to bring this about.
“…ICE agents are detaining elected officials, tear-gassing protestors, children, and Chicago police officers, and abusing Chicago residents.”
According to some commentators on Second City Cop’s blog police were told not to use gas masks because the gas masks were too intimidating. Oh and who the blazes allows their children to be where confrontation with law enforcement is not only probable but sought after?
Hamas, Hamasniks, and Antifa.
Does the President really have the choice not to federalize the National Guard when federal officers and buildings are under attack? Maybe not a legal one but an ethical and moral one.
Judge has only been on the bench 10 months, is a Biden appointee recommended by Sen. Durbin and Sen. Duckworth (this IS Illinois, after all). But at least she had some prior prosecutorial experience so there is a slight hope she’s maybe not totally Woke.
I bet Charlie Brown hopes Lucy won’t pull the football away this time.
Much as with Texas suing to ensure fair elections in other states, “no standing”.