As Chicago prepares for federal agents and soldiers to arrive in the city, a group of military veterans, attorneys and advocates urged service members to resist potentially unlawful orders from the Trump administration if deployed.

Veterans and lawyers from About Face: Veterans Against the War, the National Lawyers Guild and Movement Law Lab outlined options for National Guard members to follow their conscience in the face of what advocates and Democratic politicians say are illegal federal military operations.

“Service members signed up to uphold the Constitution,” Brad Thomson, a member of the National Lawyers Guild’s Military Law Task Force, said at a news conference Tuesday at Federal Plaza in the Loop. “Service members did not sign up to become pawns for a president trying to score

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