"Illinois state Attorney General Kwame Raoul accused President Donald Trump of using US troops "to punish his political enemies.""
"Pritzker told US broadcaster CNN that Republicans are seeking to "create the war zone, so that they can send in even more troops.""
"The White House reiterated that troops were needed to protect federal government employees from "violent riots" in Chicago."
"She told US broadcaster Fox News that Chicago, the third-largest city in the US, was "a war zone.""
Illinois and the city of Chicago filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration's deployment of hundreds of National Guard troops. President Trump announced plans to send 700 National Guard soldiers to Chicago after a federal judge ruled his Portland deployment unlawful. Democratic governor JB Pritzker and state officials pushed back, and Chicago residents protested the presence of federal immigration officers. Illinois argues the deployment violates the Posse Comitatus Act and the US Constitution's 10th Amendment and accuses the administration of using a flimsy pretext for military intervention. The White House defended the deployments as necessary to protect federal employees.
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