Donald Trump has made exerting federal power over the states a hallmark of his second term, attempting a takeover of Washington, D.C., and vowing to deploy the National Guard into the streets of American cities as he sees fit. But the president took another unprecedented move over the weekend as he green-lit the deployment of guardsmen from other states to Illinois and Oregon in stark defiance of their leaders and a court order.

Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker announced on Sunday that Trump had ordered 400 members of the Texas National Guard to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations in what he deemed “Trump’s Invasion.” The Democratic governor noted on social media that no government officials called him directly to discuss the deployment. “I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withd

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