The Trump administration is currently embroiled in a legal battle against the state of Illinois and Democratic Governor JB Pritzker over the president’s continued attempt to deploy members of the Texas National Guard into the city of Chicago.

While the White House is arguing that the president has the authority to use federal troops to address crime and illegal immigration in the city, state and local officials have decried the move as unnecessary, unconstitutional and politically motivated. Earlier this week, a federal judge blocked a similar attempt by Trump to deploy National Guardsmen to Portland, Oregon, but the administration is fighting to overturn that ruling in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

As the legal battle continues, several Republican state attorneys general are now s

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