As U.S. President Donald Trump threatens more Democrat-led cities with unwanted occupations of National Guard troops, each local leader must figure out how to push back. Last week, it was Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s turn. His approach was to expose Trump’s threats as the unconstitutional overreach that they are.
There is no emergency in a city where violent crime has dropped by more than 30%, Pritzker said. And no one, Pritzker said, has reached out from the administration to offer help or collaboration. Instead, Trump has called Chicago "a killing field,” and threatened to send in troops.
There’s only one word for sending in the military against a state’s express wishes: invasion. And Pritzker was not having it.
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