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To my fellow governors across the nation who would consider pulling your National Guards from their duties at home to come into my state against the wishes of its elected representatives and its people, you would be failing your…
They're just looking to invade the city of Chicago, not coordinate with law enforcement.
Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here, nor needed here.
If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me, not time or political circumstance, from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
This is not about fighting crime. This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city.
If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
Donald Trump wants to use the military to occupy a U.S. city, punish his dissidents and score political points.
If this were happening in any other country, we would have no trouble calling it what it is — a dangerous power grab.
The guard is not needed. This is not the role of our military.
would be the most flagrant violation of our Constitution in the 21st century.
What Trump is doing is unprecedented and unwarranted. It is illegal. It is unconstitutional. It is un-American.
We have made no requests for federal intervention. None. We found out what Trump was planning the same way all of you did.
This is exactly the type of overreach that our country’s founders warned against.
deeply disturbing, un-American, and have no place in any of our cities.
We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence; we’ve already tried that, and we’ve ended up with the largest prison population in the world without solving the problems of crime and violence.
The safety of the people of Illinois is always my top priority. There is no emergency that warrants the President of the United States federalizing the @IL_Natl_Guard, deploying the National Guard from other states, or sending active duty…
There is no emergency that warrants the president of the United States federalizing the Illinois National Guard.