The suit alleges the administration's efforts to send the National Guard into the state are illegal and unconstitutional.
“The Trump administration’s illegal actions already have subjected and are subjecting Illinois to serious and irreparable harm,” the suit says.
A federal judge in Oregon issued two separate orders over the weekend temporarily blocking the Trump administration from sending federalized National Guard members from California — or any other state — to Portland, Oregon.
“The deployment of federalized National Guard, including from another state, infringes on Illinois’s sovereignty and right to self-governance.
The city and the state want a judge to declare the administration’s federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States or any state National Guard or the deployment of the U.S. military in Illinois as "unconstitutional and/or unlawful.".
Trump had been threatening to send the National Guard into Chicago for months, and he gave the green light to do so over the weekend.
In early September, a federal judge in California ruled that his deployment of Marines and National Guard members there was illegal. »
