Political Quotes

“on December 23, the Supreme Court issued an order in Trump v. Illinois that checks this President and his authoritarian tendencies. The Court rejected the Trump administration's request to stay a temporary restraining order issued by U.S. District Judge April Perry, which had blocked Trump's unnecessary deployment of the National Guard in Chicago. In that unsigned order, the majority of the Supreme Court wrote, ``The Government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois.'' This is good news, and we should recognize the significance of this moment: Even the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority refused to greenlight the President of the United States' blatantly unlawful overreach. Our government is supposed to help Americans--not go to war with them. The administration's deployment of the National Guard was dangerous political theater intended to sow fear and escalate the President's mass deportation campaign, not to reduce crime. The President's false rhetoric about Chicago being ``overrun'' with chaos was clearly a pretext to intimidate our city and normalize the deployment of soldiers on our streets. To protect civil liberties and civilian rule--pillars of democracy-- our country has long upheld the norm that the military does not police our cities.”