President Donald Trump ’s unprecedented National Guard deployments face more scrutiny on Thursday, with two court hearings in separate U.S. states as governors opposing the militarisation of their cities challenge the federal government.

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 court to uphold the lower court, the states argued that the deployment defies the U.S. Constitutio

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