What happened

A federal judge in Illinois Monday declined to immediately block President Donald Trump from sending Texas National Guard troops to Chicago over the objections of Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) and local officials. Trump is “using our service members as political props and as pawns in his illegal effort to militarize our nation’s cities,” Pritzker said at a news conference.

Trump told Newsmax Monday evening he was considering invoking the 1792 Insurrection Act “as a way to get around” court rulings stifling his deployments , as a federal judge in Oregon did over the weekend.

Who said what

Trump’s “unconstitutional invasion” of Chicago is aimed at provoking “chaos” he can use as a “flimsy pretext” to invoke the Insurrection Act, Pritzker said. The American people “should not liv

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