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The Trump administration faced back-to-back rebukes on Thursday in a pair of cases that challenged the president’s efforts to intimidate or terrorize deep-blue cities into submission. In Chicago, Judge Sara Ellis ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection officers to stop brutalizing protesters, journalists, and faith leaders, although an appeals court has temporarily frozen her injunction, writing that “more tailored” relief may be appropriate. In the District of Columbia, Judge Jia Cobb ruled that President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard into D.C. is illegal, although she stayed her own decision for 21 day

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