Illinois and Chicago sued President Donald Trump Monday to prevent the deployment of National Guard troops here from any state, setting up one of the biggest legal clashes yet between the Republican president and Illinois’ Democratic leaders.

The lawsuit came hours after a federal judge in Oregon barred Trump from deploying federalized members of any National Guard troops under Trump’s command to Oregon.

The lawsuit calls the deployment “illegal, dangerous, and unconstitutional.” The state is also seeking a temporary restraining order blocking Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth from calling members of the Illinois and Texas national guards into federal service.

Pritzker announced Sunday that Trump had ordered 400 members of the Texas National Guard to deploy into Illinois, Oregon and els

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