Illinois and the city of Chicago filed suit against the Trump administration, asking a judge to block the administration from deploying Texas troops to the city.
The nation’s “bedrock principles are in peril,” Monday’s lawsuit claims. On Sunday, President Donald Trump called up hundreds of members of the National Guard to Chicago in what Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has called an “invasion.”
“The American people, regardless of where they reside, should not live under the threat of occupation by the United States military, particularly not simply because their city or state leadership has fallen out of a president’s favor,” the lawsuit said.