Illinois and Chicago elected leaders worked Sunday preparing plans to counter President Donald Trump’s potential deployment of National Guard members in the city, the latest White House move to combat what it calls the “lawlessness” of Democratic policies, but one that Democrats described as an attempt to spread public fear by using an uninvited occupying military force on domestic soil.

The Washington Post reported late Saturday, and other news outlets confirmed Sunday, that for weeks the Pentagon has been working on plans for a massive deployment of the National Guard members to Chicago — following on Trump’s use of troops in Los Angeles and most recently in Washington, D.C. — as he stakes out a law-and-order stance that Democrats say is an authoritarian power grab and an attemp

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