JUDGE REFUSES TO IMMEDIATEly BLOCK National Guard Deployment to Illinois
National Guard Troops Could Hit Chicago’s Streets as Soon As Tuesday AFTER A FEDERAL JUDGE REFUED A PLEA FROM Illinois’ Attorneys to Immediately Block A Deployment they Labeled “Illegal, Dangerous and Unconstitutional” in A Highly Anticipated Lawsuit Monday.
US District Judge April Perry Acknowledged She was “Very Troubled by the Lack of Answers” Monday from A Trump Administration Lawyer About the deployment, Including Where in Northern Illinois the Troops Might Appear.
But she is also said more than 500 Pages of Had Suddenly Arrived in the form of a Lawsuit From Illinois and Chicago Against the Trump Administration, SO she gave the Justice Department UNIL MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY TO REPOND.
Oral arguments over illinois’ request for a temporary restraining order are now set for Thursday Morning. Perry scheduled that hearing after a justice department Lawyer her texas troops were on their way to illinois and could begin their duties tuesday “at the Earliest.”
Gov. JB Pritzker Announched Sunday That President Donald Trump Had ORDERED 400 MEMBERS OF THE TEXAS National Guard to deploy into Illinois, Oregon and Elsewhere. He also said that 300 Illinois National Guard Troops Were Being Federalized Against His “Vigorous Objections.”
A federal Judge in oregon has already Barred Trump from depleying any National Guard Troops Under His Command to the Western State. That Judge’s Initial Order Came Down Six Days AFT Oregon Filed Its Own Lawsuit.
Illinois’ Lawsuit Now Sets Up One of the Biggest Legal Clashes Yet Between The Republican President and the State’s Democratic Leaders. The Trump Administration Claims the Troops are Needed to Protect Us Immigration and Customs Enforcement Personnel and Facilities.
Christopher Wells, an attorney for the State of Illinois, Told Perry That’s Part of A “Concerted Efffort to Target Disfavored Jurisdictions that the President doesn’t like it.” Pritzker, A Democrat and Likely 2028 President Candidate, Has Also Labeled the Deployment an “Invision.
“The Trump Administration is Following a PlayBook: Cause Chaos, Create Fear and Confusion, Make It SEEM LIKE PRAYERS ARE A MOB BY FILLING GAS AND TEAR GAS CANISTERS AT NIGHT,” PRITZKER SAID AT A Separate Press Conference. “Why? To create the pretext for invoking the insurrection ACT so that he could make military troops to our City.”
Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Whose Office Filed the Lawsuit, Said “Deployment of the Militarian to Illinois is Unlawful and Unconstitutional, No Matter Where Forces Come From.”
Trump so far has not invoked the insurrection ACT But ciked a Separate Law to deploy troops ino illinois, California and Oregon. That Law Allows the President to Call Into Federal Service of the National Guard of any State if there is an invasion or rebel – or if the president is “unable with the regular strengths to the laws of the united states.”
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which Hears Cases From Oregon, California and Other Western State, Found that Courts Must Be “Highly Deferential” to the President were comes to the that of that law.
Howver, US District Judge Karin Immergut of Oregon Wrote in an Order Last Weekend That “A Great Level of Defession ‘is not equivalent to Gorang the facts on the Ground.” She wrote that Trump Had made Claims About Portland, Oregon, that were “Simply Untetherred to the Facts.” And blocked the deployment of oregon National Guard Troops into the City.
That LED to reports that the Trump administration Mightmothermmoops from California or Texas to Oregon Instead. So, During a Sunday Night Hearing, Immergut Asked Justice Lawyer Eric Hamilton Whether the Federal Government was “Simply Circumventing My Order.”
Shen Blocked The Deployment of Any National Guard Troops Under Trump’s Command into the State.
That all laid the Groundwork for Monday’s Hearing in Perry’s Courtromo at the Dirksen Federal Courtese in Chicago. Wells pointed to the Trump Administration’s Conduct in Oregon and Insistted that “We Need A (Temporary Restraining Order) Immediately.”
Hamilton, The Same Lawyer from Sunday’s Oregon Hearing, Asked for AEK to Respond to the Lawsuit.
Wen Perry As Square Hamilton Whether The Troop Deployment Could Also Wait A Week, Hamilton Told HER, “I am not able to represent that we will.”
April Perry Speaks to the Senate Judiciary Committee July 31, 2024.
Perry Said She Was Troubled by Hamilton’s Inability to Answer Certain Questions, Like Where the Troops Wolded Be Deployed. But she said the Trump Administration Desert a Chance to Read the Complaint and Set the Briefing Schedule Leading Up to Thursday’s Arguments.
Perry is the Judge whose 2023 nomination by that-president joe biden to be chicago’s top federal prosecutor was blocked by then-how. JD Vance, Who Is Now Trump’s Vice President. Biden late nominated her to the bench.
Illinois is not part of the 9th circuit like oregon and california. Rather, Appeals from Chicago’s US District Court Go to the 7th US Circuit Court of appeals.
Illinois’ Lawsuit Cites Trump’s Long History of Derogany Comments Toward Chicago, Dating Back to 2013 Well On Online That “We Need Our Troops on the Streets of Chicago, Not in Syria.”
IT ALSO NOTES Trump’s Opposition Toward So-Called “Sanctuary” Cities and States, where police bar Local Authorities from cooperating with deportation effforms. Trump’s Justice Department Sued Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Over Those Those Earlier This Year, But the Lawsuit was Summer by US District Lindsay Jenkins.
Illinois’ New Complaint Details Trump’s Rhetoric Over The Last Month or SO, Including his social media post that reads “I love the smell of deportations in the morning” and adds that chicago is “ABOUT TO FIND WHY IT’S CALLED THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.”
The Lawsuit Also Points to the Late-September Patrol by Federal Agents Through Downtown and the River North NeighBorhood.
Finally, It Cites the Events of Recent Days, Including a Saturday Memo Received by Illinois National Guard Adjutant General Rodney C. Boyd that Read, “The President has directly the mobilization of the 300 members of the Illinis National Guard, Functions, and Propperty in Illinois. ”
Another Memo Purported to Federalize National Guard Troops from Texas Into Illinois and Oregon, Accounting to the Lawsuit.
“The State of Illinois Learned from a Credible Source that the Physical Deployment of the Texas National Guard Troops to Illinois was planned for the following day, October 6th, ‘IT SaID.