Update to original story: A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Trump from federalizing or deploying National Guard members to Illinois for at least two weeks, saying continuing to militarize the response to local protests was likely to cause civil unrest.
Is that a constitutional reason? The protesters might start trouble so the Guard can’t be in Chicago to protect ICE as they arrest people here illegally? They can’t engage in deportation actions?
While handing down her order, U.S. District Judge April Perry also ripped the Department of Homeland Security’s factual accounts of crime its agents have been encountering, citing judicial findings in other cases over the past two days that the agency has been using “unreliable evidence.”
She said she sees no evidence of a rebellion.
There is a rebellion:
BREAKING: Bulletins from CIS & DHS state four Chicago ICE facilities, including Broadview have been surveilled with detailed layouts, diagrams & photos— posted to an Antifa website with pics of ICE Agents names & faces.
This is the “resistance” @GovPritzker wants. pic.twitter.com/dzRBwpoJp4
— Dapper Detective (@Dapper_Det) October 8, 2025
In general, the violence in Chicago is very visible and has been reported. Twenty-six people shot and seven dead in one weekend is evidence of too much uncontrolled violence.
The Illinois governor and Chicago mayor have it under control?
FBI Director Kash Patel says nearly 5% of Chicago’s 2.5 million residents, approximately 110,000 people, are active gang members.
No wonder Mayor Brandon Johnson and Governor Pritzker don’t want National Guard there! Democrats support gang violence and crime! pic.twitter.com/ybT3BcCeIl
— Mike Engleman (@RealHickory) October 8, 2025
Original Story, October 7
Four hundred Texas National Guard are on their way to Chicago after a federal Biden judge in Illinois refused to block the move. This is after a Portland Trump judge banned President Trump from sending any troops.
That’s very odd, but the move by the Biden judge, U.S. District Court Judge April Perry, is temporary and could change on Thursday.
As for Immergut, her husband, James T. McDermott, represented Ambassador Gordon Sondland when he testified against Donald Trump during the Ukraine impeachment.
The Story
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson asked a federal judge Monday morning to block President Donald Trump.
Military officials mobilized 2,000 members of the Texas National Guard Sunday to protect federal property at “locations where violent demonstrations against these functions are occurring or are likely to occur” in “Illinois, Oregon and other locations throughout the United States,” records show.
Illinois is suing, claiming the move is politically motivated and an unconstitutional overreach.
“The American people, regardless of where they reside, should not live under the threat of occupation by the United States military, particularly not simply because their city or state leadership has fallen out of a president’s favor,” according to the lawsuit.
Pritzker accused agents with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of “inciting violence” as a pretext to deploy armed military personnel to Chicago.
“The president has decided to declare war on a great American city,” Pritzker said Monday, using a news conference to detail what he called a litany of egregious offenses committed by federal officials in the past four weeks, including the detention of Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) on Friday.
Lawyers for the Trump administration said the troops from Texas have arrived in Chicago.
400 Texas National Guard troops wheels up to Chicago!
Let’s Go! pic.twitter.com/SYyxCbCFvh
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) October 7, 2025
A full hearing will take place on Thursday.
Democrats don’t want this because it shows people how incompetent they are.
Gov. JB Pritzker continues to shamelessly lie. In the incident he describes here, the officer was being dragged by the car of the now-deceased illegal alien and Pritzker knows it.
A story in three parts:
Pritzker calls DHS report on people boxing in and ramming federal vehicles “propaganda”
Duckworth says DHS is “lying” about people boxing in and ramming federal vehicles
24 hrs later: CPD Sup demands people stop boxing in and ramming federal vehicles pic.twitter.com/mO39u0cw7F
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) October 6, 2025
.@POTUS DESTROYS JB Pritzker:
“We had a week in Chicago where 11 people were murdered and 38 people were shot, and then we a have a governor get up and say, ‘It’s safe, we can handle it.’ … He’s an incompetent guy. That’s why they threw him out of the family business.” pic.twitter.com/o7hIZ45GmG
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) October 6, 2025
“….saying continuing to militarize the response to local protests was likely to cause civil unrest.” What does this idiot judge think is going on now? Criminals organizing to assault ICE officers isn’t civil unrest? Oh, I know, it’s all Trump’s and ICE’s fault they’re enforcing our laws that Democrats refuse to do. These riots just prove the illegals need to… Read more »
Pritzker, an elitist nepo-baby, and Johnson the corrupt hack pol, have one thing in common. It’s in their own best political interests to keep poor minorities on the Democrat Plantation.
This is good news! That CPD Sup is a good man.
I think the USSC in a ruling this year reduced the power of a district judge to apply a ruling to other districts.
Johnson and especially Pritzker look disturbed over events. I doubt their numbers go up over all the noise they are making. Their careers are over.
I was told years ago by a Chicago resident who said Chicagoans don’t necessarily worry about who’s running Chicago as long as things are working out for them personally. Tell me, how are things working out for you now under years of radical leftist Democrat rule that began since we spoke?
Pritzker and Johnson should be required to live in the inner city for a week or so without their security entourage. If I were a resident of this hell hole I would be pissed at these 2 morons. The fact they will be probably be elected again shows there are too many morons living in Chicago.
Correction
“there are too many
moronscriminals living in Chicago”It’s not the number of people that vote for someone that counts; it’s the number of votes you count to elect your people. Whoever said cheaters never prosper, never lived in Chicago, Detroit, or Philadelphia.
Clean up the voter rolls, go back to paper ballots, and eliminate mail in ballots.
Pritzker and Johnson both need a good kick in the ass!