Asked whether he intends to replicate his administration’s intervention in Washington, D.C., by sending federalized National Guard troops into Chicago, U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to do exactly that, despite protests from the city’s mayor and the governor of Illinois.

It’s a fraught move, given the dangers of sending troops that aren’t trained for police work into an American city, and a recent court ruling that a similar deployment in Los Angeles was illegal. But Trump has rarely shied from an opportunity to humiliate his political opponents, even when doing so runs up against — or past — the limits of his authority.

In fact, Chicago’s criminals seem to be inviting federal intervention. Even as Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker insists “there’s no emergency here that calls for military

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