National guard troops from Texas are heading to Illinois after a federal judge declined to immediately block them after a lawsuit from the state against the Trump administration.
Texas guard members departed the Fort Bliss military installation in El Paso on a US military transport plane on Monday evening.
The US district judge April Perry allowed the federal government to continue the deployment in Chicago while it responds to Illinois’s suit. She set a deadline of midnight on Wednesday for the government to reply. A similar effort to deploy troops to Portland was blocked by a judge in Oregon.
Donald Trump is also seeking to federalize the Illinois national guard, which would involve moving them from state to federal jurisdiction.
It’s because some people are still playing by a rulebook that’s burning in the corner trash can. Some people are still concerned with “what’s proper”.
In other words, “because she’s living in a fantasy world where normally that would have been a bad look”