What happened

A federal judge in Chicago Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from federalizing the Illinois National Guard or deploying any Guard units in the state, saying there was growing evidence that the administration’s “perceptions of events are simply unreliable” and the addition of troops to anti-ICE protests would “only add fuel to the fire” that Trump officials “themselves have started.”

Who said what

At Thrusday's hearing, U.S. District Judge April Perry pressed Justice Department lawyer Eric Hamilton on the scope of Trump’s Guard mission in Illinois . “I am very much struggling to figure out where this would ever stop,” she said after he would not commit to the deployment remaining aimed at protecting federal property and federal agents. Hamilton argued th

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