A federal judge in Illinois has just refused to initially block President Trump from deploying the National Guard from other states to Chicago, and instead set a hearing for Thursday.
The judge is a Biden appointee.
Here’s more from WTTW:
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson asked a federal judge Monday morning to block President Donald Trump from deploying 400 members of the Texas National Guard to Chicago alongside 300 members of the Illinois National Guard.
Military officials mobilized 2,000 members of the Texas National Guard Sunday to protect federal property at “locations where violent demonstrations against these functions are occurring or are likely to occur” in “Illinois, Oregon and other locations throughout the United States,” records show.
The lawsuit filed by Illinois and Chicago officials calls the looming deployment a politically motivated and unconstitutional federal overreach.
“The American people, regardless of where they reside, should not live under the threat of occupation by the United States military, particularly not simply because their city or state leadership has fallen out of a president’s favor,” according to the lawsuit.
Pritzker accused agents with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of “inciting violence” as a pretext to deploy armed military personnel to Chicago.
“The president has decided to declare war on a great American city,” Pritzker said Monday, using a news conference to detail what he called a litany of egregious offenses committed by federal officials in the past four weeks, including the detention of Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) on Friday.
As Pritzker spoke, U.S. District Court Judge April Perry, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden, held the first hearing in the lawsuit.
Lawyers for the Trump administration said the troops from Texas could hit the streets of Chicago as soon as Tuesday.
Perry declined to immediately issue a restraining order, as requested by the state and city, but scheduled a full hearing on Thursday.
In what world does a Trump appointee federal judge immediately ban Trump from deploying National Guard from outside the state, while a Biden appointee refuses to do that before a hearing is held.
Now it could be that this Biden appointee ends up giving scumbag Pritzker the ban he wants after Thursday. But by then I can assure you that the National Guard will be there already and it could be moot. Not sure how that works illegally.