CHICAGO (WGN) — In an exclusive TV interview, Gov. JB Pritzker said he’s prepared to fight President Donald Trump’s call up of 300 Illinois National Guard troops to support the sweeping immigration crackdown in Chicago.

“Let’s be clear that it is illegal to, in fact, call out the National Guard or to send troops into American cities. The Posse Comitatus Act prohibits that,” Pritzker told WGN from his downtown office.

Late Saturday, a federal judge temporarily blocked Trump’s attempt to federalize and deploy the Oregon National Guard in Portland ruling that the president fell short of the high bar required to justify deployment without approval of the state’s governor. The judge in the case was appointed by Trump.

Pritzker says he expects a similar outcome.

“Even they recognize — the Tr

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