National Guard troops are headed to Chicago and could arrive as soon as Tuesday after a federal judge on Monday scheduled a hearing on the matter for Thursday in order to review what she said was more than 500 pages of filings.

The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago sued the Trump administration Monday over the Guard deployment, which would send up to 300 Illinois National Guard soldiers and up to 400 more Guard troops from Texas into Chicago ostensibly to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel and facilities, but over the objection of the governor of Illinois. “These advances in President Trump’s long-declared ‘War’ on Chicago and Illinois are unlawful and dangerous,” the suit alleges.

“The Trump administration is following a playbook: cause chaos, create fear

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