{"id":283085,"date":"2025-10-07T03:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T03:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/283085\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T03:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T03:14:11","slug":"texas-national-guard-heads-to-chicago-amid-lawsuits-against-trump-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/283085\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas National Guard heads to Chicago amid lawsuits against Trump \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Illinois and Oregon have sued the Trump administration to block National Guard deployment.<\/li>\n<li>Chicago residents allegedly tried to halt ICE operations with a car blockade on Saturday.<\/li>\n<li>Utah&#8217;s former National Guard general said Trump&#8217;s actions fall under legal authorities. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Texas National Guard soldiers headed to Chicago on Monday as Illinois joined Oregon and California in challenging the Trump administration for federalizing state militias to protect immigration agents. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Democratic-led states filed a litany of lawsuits against the White House over the weekend, alleging that President Donald Trump had taken unprecedented steps to exert military authority against U.S. civilians. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hjFyVV5tx8Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hjFyVV5tx8Q\">said<\/a> on Monday that federal officials had not coordinated with him before launching what the Democratic governor called the \u201cunconstitutional invasion of Illinois by the federal government.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hours earlier, the Democratic mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1975210976728518974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1975210976728518974\">announced<\/a> an executive order that would establish \u201cICE-free zones,\u201d prohibiting Immigration and Customs Enforcement from operating on city-owned property. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BasedMikeLee\/status\/1975222092724617677\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BasedMikeLee\/status\/1975222092724617677\">post<\/a> on X, Utah Sen. Mike Lee questioned whether Johnson had ever read the \u201cSupremacy Clause\u201d of the U.S. Constitution, which makes federal statute the \u201csupreme law of the land,\u201d overriding state or local policies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Johnson\u2019s order came after Chicago residents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/chicago-police-sources-blast-departments-response-after-officers-were-told-not-help-fed-agents-cover-a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/chicago-police-sources-blast-departments-response-after-officers-were-told-not-help-fed-agents-cover-a\">appeared<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/federal-agents-portland-deploy-tear-gas-make-arrests-minutes-after-judge-blocks-national-guard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/federal-agents-portland-deploy-tear-gas-make-arrests-minutes-after-judge-blocks-national-guard\">violently<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/federal-agents-shoot-woman-broadview-ice-facility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/federal-agents-shoot-woman-broadview-ice-facility\/\">interfere<\/a> with federal operations on Saturday when ICE officials were \u201cboxed in\u201d by vehicles and a crowd, resulting in several arrests and the shooting of one woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In an emergency hearing held on Monday, a federal judge did not immediately block National Guardsmen from entering the city, postponing a hearing on the issue until Thursday, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/10\/06\/us\/national-guard-trump-oregon-chicago\/0c4840e6-fced-5a16-8ac6-1a96d5a0f83b?smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/10\/06\/us\/national-guard-trump-oregon-chicago\/0c4840e6-fced-5a16-8ac6-1a96d5a0f83b?smid=url-share\">New York Times<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50;background-color:#F3F1F0;cursor:pointer\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/A6T37CPG4BDW7J57T2GB7P6UYQ.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Protester stand off against police and federal officers at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Ore. on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. | Ethan Swope, Associated Press Did Trump act constitutionally? <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Trump has characterized blue-state opposition to federal operations as an effort to shelter dangerous criminals. Critics, including a Trump-appointed judge, argue that the National Guard deployment exceeds constitutional limits. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The former head of the Utah National Guard, Maj. Gen. (ret.) Jefferson Burton, told the Deseret News that Trump\u2019s mobilization of the National Guard falls under Title 10 authorities, permitting him to make the National Guard part of federal forces during national emergencies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s not breaking statutes currently in place, but it does test the norms to some degree because in most cases presidents don\u2019t do this without a governor requesting those troops,\u201d Burton said. \u201cAnd so I\u2019m not surprised that courts are saying, \u2018Wait, slow down.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Burton, who also serves as a state lawmaker from Salem, said the administration\u2019s legal confrontation represents a fundamental disagreement on a \u201csensitives states\u2019 rights issue\u201d about the National Guard\u2019s role in helping enforce federal initiatives. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has previously been outspoken about federal overreach related to National Guard units. In August, Cox said he supported the Utah National Guard aiding ICE as long as it did not include participating in arrests. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/06\/department-of-defense-security-for-the-protection-of-department-of-homeland-security-functions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/06\/department-of-defense-security-for-the-protection-of-department-of-homeland-security-functions\/\">June 7 order<\/a> to federalize National Guard troops, even against a state\u2019s wishes, is \u201cunprecedented,\u201d said ACLU National Security Project Director Hina Shamsi in response to a question from the Deseret News. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The statutes Trump invoked only apply during true emergencies as determined in \u201cgood faith and honest judgement\u201d \u2014 and the situations in Portland and Chicago do not meet that threshold, according to Shamsi. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIn Portland, and I would say it\u2019s the same elsewhere, there is no \u2018good faith-honest judgment\u2019 basis for deploying federalized National Guard troops over the objections of governors,\u201d Shamsi said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Sept. 29, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered 200 Oregon National Guard soldiers to be deployed to Portland to protect federal immigration facilities, where protests had consistently taken place since June. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Saturday, U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut, who was appointed by Trump during his first term, put the move on hold, ruling that the troops were not needed to enforce laws, suppress an insurrection or repel an invasion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Immergut expanded her original restraining order during an emergency hearing on Sunday to include the National Guard of any state sent to Oregon after the Trump administration attempted to deploy troops from California and Texas. <\/p>\n<p>Can the National Guard fight city crime? <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The lawsuit did not directly impact Trump\u2019s order sending the National Guard to Chicago, where the president has promised to quell persistent gang violence, in addition to providing protection for federal immigration agents. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Those who claim Trump\u2019s efforts are tantamount to turning the U.S. military against Americans are escalating an already tense political moment, according to Rafael Mangual, a senior fellow in criminal justice policy at the Manhattan Institute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s irresponsible to ratchet up the rhetoric to suggest that this is some kind of attack on American citizens within these cities,\u201d Mangual said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It is clear from the multiple assaults on ICE officers in recent weeks that \u201cthey need help,\u201d according to Mangual. But it is essential to distinguish between the two different justifications for deploying the guard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">While the National Guard is not prepared to fulfill local law enforcement duties, it is equipped to support ICE agents during protests and to maintain order around facilities \u2014 especially where there is a perceived lack of help from local law enforcement, Mangual said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It is unclear whether efforts to decrease crime using the National Guard in Washington, D.C., have been effective, Mangual said. And if Trump tried to use troops outside of the capital to fight local crime then it would create legal uncertainties about the National Guard\u2019s jurisdiction. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWhat I would like to see is a world in which &#8230; Portland and Chicago come to realize the error of their ways, come to understand that they do have a serious crime and disorder problem, and authorize their police to do the things that those police have trained to do,\u201d Mangual said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Illinois and Oregon have sued the Trump administration to block National Guard deployment. 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