Gov. Kevin Stitt condemned President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops across state lines , the first Republican governor to speak out against the practice.

Over the last two weeks, Trump has attempted to dispatch National Guard troops to Democratic-led cities, including Chicago and Portland, Oregon. When those dispatches were temporarily paused by federal judges, the administration tried to send federalized troops from Texas and California across state lines.

“We believe in the federalist system; that’s states’ rights,” Stitt, who chairs the National Governors Association, told The New York Times on Thursday. “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

“As a federalist believer,

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