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A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from federalizing National Guard troops in Chicago, warning that deploying U.S. military forces into volatile scenes with a surge of federal law enforcement officers “will only add fuel to the fire.”
District Judge April Perry argued Thursday that the president’s deployment likely violates the 10th and 14th Amendments as well as the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which prohibit
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