By Heather Schlitz, Renee Hickman and Dietrich Knauth

CHICAGO (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s aggressive and unprecedented National Guard deployments will be further tested in two court hearings in different U.S. states on Thursday, as governors resisting the militarization of their cities challenge the federal government in court.

A federal judge in Illinois will decide whether to temporarily stop the National Guard from deploying to Chicago, and an appeals court in California will review Trump’s initial appeal over his decision to send troops to Portland, Oregon, which a federal judge blocked over the weekend.

A coalition of 24 states on Wednesday filed a brief in support of Oregon and California’s lawsuit opposing the National Guard deployment in Portland. In urging the appeals c

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