Part of President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Illinois are 400 members of the Texas National Guard, a move a former Illinois National Guard commander said he has "never seen before."

Members of the National Guard are duty-bound to follow legal orders, and are also duty-bound to not follow illegal orders. Our expert said it's quite unusual for guardsmen to be federalized, to be called up by the federal government, to take them from one state to another.

Illinois officials, including Attorney General Kwame Raoul, have harshly criticized Mr. Trump's insistence on deploying military troops to Chicago because, in their words, "There is no public safety need or other emergency requiring National Guard intervention."

The president has justified federalizing the National Guard

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