"This weekend, we learned from the media that Donald Trump has been planning for quite a while now to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago, Pritzker noted. This is exactly the type of overreach that our country's Founders warned against. And it's the reason that they established a federal system with a separation of powers built on checks and balances. The governor went on to call Trump's actions illegal, unconstitutional, and un-American."
"If this was really about fighting crime and making the streets safe, what possible justification could the White House have for planning such an exceptional action without any conversations or consultations with the governor, the mayor, or the police? Let me answer that question. This is not about fighting crime. This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city, in a blue state, to try and intimidate his political rivals."
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker criticized President Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard in U.S. cities, calling the actions illegal, unconstitutional, and un-American. He noted the Guard was activated in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles without approval from local leaders. He warned that plans to deploy armed military personnel to Chicago represent federal overreach that undermines constitutional separation of powers and checks and balances. He reported no White House consultation with state or city officials about any Chicago deployment. He accused the president and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller of seeking to militarize and circumvent democracy to intimidate political rivals.
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