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With Supreme Court decision still pending, judge extends block on Guard in Chicago indefinitely

CHICAGO (AP) — National Guard troops won’t be deploying in the Chicago area anytime soon unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes because a judge on Wednesday extended her temporary restraining order indefinitely. Elsewhere around the country, it will be at least days before the Guard could be deployed in Portland, Oregon, and federal appeals judges are weighing whether hundreds of California National Guard members should remain under federal control. President Donald Trump’s push to send the military into Democratic-run cities despite fierce resistance from mayors and governors has […]

October 23, 2025 1

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‘Inherently corrupting’: Obama warns against danger of Trump’s Chicago military deployment

Former President Barack Obama slammed President Donald Trump‘s attempts to use the military in American cities, warning that America’s democracy is being “weakened deliberately.” “When you have a military that can direct force against their own people, that is inherently corrupting,” America’s first Black president said on WTF podcast, accusing his successor of politicizing the military. Since entering office for a second time, Trump has taken extraordinary steps to address what he has described as out-of-control crime in cities led by […]

October 14, 2025

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Chicago mayor says it ‘wouldn’t be the first time’ Trump ‘unjustly’ called for a Black man to be jailed

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson fired back at Donald Trump after the president, in a social media post, called for him to be jailed over the Trump administration’s continued clashes with the city and state of Illinois. “First of all, this president is unstable, unhinged, a double-minded individual that, quite frankly, is a threat to our democracy,” said Johnson during an interview with CNN. He added, “It’s certainly not the first time that Donald Trump has called for the arresting of […]

October 8, 2025

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Trump calls for arrest of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker

President Donald Trump called for the arrest of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, escalating political tensions as he attempts to send federal troops to Chicago amid continued immigration raids executed by federal agents, as well as accusations of crime and lawlessness in the Windy City. In a Truth Social post on Wednesday morning, Trump wrote, “Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!” Trump did not clarify how Mayor […]

October 8, 2025

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‘His soul…He’s lost’: Chicago mayor responds to Trump’s Insurrection Act threat, says president fears Black and brown power

Chicago Brandon Johnson said he is praying for Donald Trump after the U.S. president threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 if his plans to deploy the military in cities like Chicago and Portland are stopped by federal courts. “If I had to enact it, I’d do it, if people were being killed and courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday when asked about […]

October 7, 2025

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Trump revives threat to send National Guard to Chicago, calling Black-led city a ‘death trap’

President Donald Trump revived his threat to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, setting up a political and legal battle in the Democratic-controlled city and state of Illinois. “I’m going to Chicago early,” Trump said at the White House on Tuesday as he left for the U.K. The president said of the majority-Black and brown city: “Chicago is a death trap.” Trump had seemingly backed off his vow to send troops on the ground in the Windy City following a […]

September 16, 2025

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Trump denies he’s going to war in Chicago after threatening majority-Black city in jarring social media post

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he is not going to war in Chicago after seemingly threatening to send his newly renamed Department of War to the majority-Black city in a Truth Social post over the weekend. TheGrio was on the ground at the White House as Trump was boarding Marine One to attend the U.S. Open men’s championship final in New York City. While taking questions from reporters, the president denied that he is going to war in […]

September 7, 2025

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Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton fires back at ‘wannabe dictator’ Trump’s Chicago takeover threat: ‘We don’t want your circus here’

As President Donald Trump continues to threaten military deployment to Chicago, Illinois’ Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton says Trump’s MAGA plot is not welcome in the Windy City. “We do not want your circus here,” Stratton told theGrio during a phone interview on Wednesday. “We do not want federalized troops here, marching up and down the streets…he needs to do his job and keep his chaos out of the city of Chicago.” Despite Trump’s claim that Chicagoans support his plan to […]

September 5, 2025 2

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Chicago prepares for an influx of National Guard troops and immigration agents

Chicago community leaders forged ahead Wednesday with preparations for the influx of National Guard troops and immigration agents the city is expecting, advising residents about their rights and organizing protests with fresh urgency. Details about the operation are scant, but President Donald Trump has amped up the rhetoric about crime in the nation’s third-largest city, saying an immigration crackdown and National Guard deployment are planned despite the objections of local leaders and a federal court ruling that a similar deployment in Los Angeles was illegal. The preparations seem familiar in […]

September 4, 2025