CHICAGO - The State of Illinois and the City of Chicago on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to deny the Trump administration’s request to be allowed to deploy National Guard troops in the state.

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The state argued the deployment of National Guard troops would infringe on its ability to oversee its own law enforcement and that the Trump administration didn’t have the legal justification for such a move.

The response came just days after the Trump administration escalated the conflict with city and state leaders over the use of troops to protect immigration enforcement agents and property during the so-called Operation Midway Blitz in the Chicago area in which hundreds of people have been detained.

Shortly after the Trump administration federalized around 300 Illin

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