Illinois, Trump and Chicago
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President Donald Trump’s Chicago crackdown is forcing one of his more conventional US attorneys, Andrew Boutros, to balance the district’s entrenched apolitical traditions against escalating White House pressure.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul says he doesn't trust the Trump administration to only give legal orders to the troops.
WASHINGTON — President Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to uphold his deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago. His lawyers filed an emergency appeal urging the court to set aside rulings of judges in Chicago and hold that National Guard troops are needed to protect U.S. immigration agents from hostile protesters.