The week began with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker standing in front of the Chicago River, flanked by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, two U.S. senators and dozens of city and state leaders, urging President Donald Trump not to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago.

“This is not about fighting crime,” Pritzker told the assembled crowd. “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.

“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey Stephen Miller searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities and end elections,” he continued. “There is no emergency in Chicago that calls for armed military intervention. There is

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