A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to the city and state as part of its ongoing immigration enforcement push, saying she had no faith in the government’s claims of out-of-control violence and that it was federal agents who started it by aggressively targeting protesters with tear gas and militaristic tactics.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge April Perry is the latest setback for President Donald Trump, who has claimed ongoing violence and clashes between protesters and immigration agents in Chicago and other U.S. cities justified sending federalized troops onto the streets as a security force, even as local and state officials accused the president of manufacturing a crisis to justify unnecessary — and unprecedented — force.
The temporary restraining order issued by Perry, which took effect immediately, bars the president from deploying federalized National Guard troops from any state to any location in Illinois. A written ruling would be issued Friday, she said.
Will he actually comply with the ruling?
Unless he’s gonna waddle his fat orange ass out there and do it himself, at this point these rulings are less about whether HE’S going to listen and more about whether the people actually doing his dirty work listen.
Doesn’t have to. “Official acts.”
He might not have to, but the people under him do.
Federal court order. Violating it would be a federal offense. Presidents can pardon federal offenses.
On the other hand, they may be thinking twice after all of his broken promises to pay everyone ever. The idea of a potential pardon doesn’t carry as much weight when the person making the promise notoriously lies about his follow through.
A contempt of court charge isn’t a federal charge, iirc.
I doubt it, because he can just get his goons in the Supreme Court to change the ruling. It feels like these “judge blocks X” events are nearly meaningless. I mean they still do something but in a sane world… we wouldn’t be at this point.
the national guard will comply with the ruling… but it’s just a 2 week, temporary block
“You blatantly lied about everything so you have to stop being horrible for two weeks, but then feel free to resume after that.”
well i hope it’s to make time for some other process to block it more completely…
A court ruling is the process that could block it completely.
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