Mere hours after a federal judge ruled that his use of U.S. troops in police actions in Los Angeles was illegal, President Donald Trump threatened to carry out a similar operation in Chicago.

Speaking to reporters from the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump said that he still plans to deploy troops in the nation’s third-largest city over the objections of local and state leaders.

“We’re going in,” Trump said. “This isn’t a political thing. I have an obligation.”

Echoing law and order rhetoric he used to defend similar actions in D.C., the president cited a spate of shootings in Chicago over Labor Day weekend as justification for a troop surge in the Windy City.

“When I watch television last night, and I’m watching the news and I see that nine people were killed in Chicago and 54 were badly

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