Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker pushed back Monday on President Donald Trump’s threat to deploy the National Guard to the state.
“What President Trump is doing is unprecedented and unwarranted,” Pritzker said at a news conference. “It is illegal. It is unconstitutional. It is un-American.”
Pritzker claimed Trump is manufacturing a crisis and noted that neither he nor Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson had been contacted by the White House about working together.
Pritzker pointed out that murders, shootings, robberies and burglaries are all down year over year.
And you seem awfully hyped to have teenagers go unlawfully arrest and assault US citizens without provocation.
Every single JAG lawyer in the country should be lined up around the block for these soldiers. There is a clear cut and dry requirement of refusal of unlawful orders within that contract that they signed. In fact, not “going AWOL” in this case is going to be a much, much worse outcome for them in the long term. It’s like nobody learned anything from Nuremberg at all. “Just following orders” is not an acceptable excuse for a crime and there is precedent that says so.
Before I give you a temp ban, what country do you live in?