Deploying National Guard troops into Chicago against the wishes of Gov. JB Pritzker and other elected officials here amounts to a “break-glass-in-case-of-emergency thing to do.”

And “nobody’s suggesting there’s an emergency.”

That, in a nutshell, was the take from three legal scholars who spoke Tuesday to the Chicago Sun-Times after President Donald Trump said he might deploy troops to a city he called a “killing field” even though homicides are down.

The lack of any emergency could be a key difference between a National Guard deployment here and what happened in California last June. Trump sent troops into Los Angeles amid reports of violence, prompting an ongoing legal battle with California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Now, Illinois officials say they’re scrutinizing the California lawsuit wh

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