"Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice [sic] Officers!" President Donald Trump blasted on Truth Social on October 8. "Governor Pritzker also!"

The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago filed suit against the Trump administration on October 6, arguing that the Defense Department's deployment of both Illinois and Texas National Guard members to Chicago is unlawful and unconstitutional.

The suit was a response to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth federalizing 300 Illinois National Guard members on October 4, and 400 from Texas the following day. Despite opposition from both Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, the troops arrived in Chicago on October 8.

"The Trump Administration's Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up you

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