Officials accuse US President Donald Trump of ‘unlawful and unconstitutional’ use of National Guard in latest effort to stop deployment.Illinois has become the latest US state to launch legal action in hopes of blocking United States President Donald Trump from deploying the National Guard.The lawsuit filed on Monday by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and officials from the city of Chicago came just hours after a federal judge in Oregon temporarily blocked Trump from sending the National Guard to the state’s largest city, Portland. The White House has said that it is appealing that decision.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listTrump has sought to expand the use of the US military during his second term, including to aid in domestic immigration and law enforcement. That has come amid a wider effort to portray Democrat-run cities as violence-ridden and lawless.In a post on X, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker decried Trump’s latest plan, which would involve federalising 300 of the state’s National Guard troops and deploying another 400 from Texas, as “unlawful and unconstitutional”.Attorney General Raoul said US citizens “should not live under the threat of occupation by the United States military, particularly for the reason that their city or state leadership has fallen out of a president’s favor “.Since taking office in January, Trump has already deployed National Guard troops to Los Angeles in the state of California and the federal district of Washington, DC, and has floated sending troops to at least eight other major cities.In September, a federal judge ruled that the Trump adm …
