Day 139

Illegal National Guard Deployments to Los Angeles and Attempted Deployment to Chicago

The Trump administration federalized approximately 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles without the governor's consent — the first such action since the 1960s — in response to immigration protests. A federal judge called the deployment 'profoundly un-American' and ordered it ended. The Supreme Court separately blocked an attempted deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois in a 6-3 ruling.

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