Unbelievable

Hundreds of National Guard troops could be deployed in the Chicago region as soon as today after a federal judge declined to issue an immediate order blocking President Donald Trump’s moves to activate Guard members over the objections of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and scores of local officials.

The decision from U.S. District Judge April Perry, over strenuous objections from the Illinois attorney general’s office, came in a hearing hours after the state and the city of Chicago filed a lawsuit yesterday morning seeking to prevent the use of Guard forces from Illinois and Texas for what the White House claims is an effort to protect federal immigration personnel and facilities amid the Trump administration’s escalated deportation actions.

Attorneys for the federal government said during a brief court hearing yesterday afternoon that Texas National Guard units were in transit to Illinois and weren’t expected to “begin getting into position to perform federal protective missions until tomorrow at the earliest.” Illinois Guard members have been ordered to report today. The federal government is uncertain when it will be ready for its “federal protective mission,” Trump administration attorneys told Perry.

  Chicago Tribune Daywatch newsletter

Uncertain when it will be ready for its "protective mission"? I thought this was supposed to be an emergency action, and therefore legal.

Unfuckingbelievable. Was this judge afraid her house would be burnded down like the last one that crossed Trump?

She blusters through this with an attitude that you'd expect her to give a Democratic Senator.  She wants JB Pritzker "condemned" for not cooperating.  She says there's a 1000% increase in violent attacks against ICE officers.  Bullshit. Maybe from 1 attack to 3?  Countless illegal immigrants in 

Chicago.    

UPDATE 03:08 pm:

Neutral observers have noted that, at most, those actions led to a 2% increase in arrests in the District, which was already enjoying a significant drop in crime before the federal crackdown.

  Democracy Docket

Yes, she is an insufferable twat.  Like so many of Trump's administration.

“Eventually, you’re going to have to answer for your conduct in this,” [Dick Durbin (D -IL) said. “You won’t do it today, but one day you will.”

  Democracy Docket

She's betting she won't. And I wouldn't take that bet.

I don't know which came first, but that's the same thing she said to Dick Durbin about Chicago when he asked her a question she didn't want to answer.

UPDATE 10/08/2025: