National guard troops from Texas are heading to Illinois after a federal judge declined to immediately block them after a lawsuit from the state against the Trump administration.
Texas guard members departed the Fort Bliss military installation in El Paso on a US military transport plane on Monday evening.
The US district judge April Perry allowed the federal government to continue the deployment in Chicago while it responds to Illinois’s suit. She set a deadline of midnight on Wednesday for the government to reply. A similar effort to deploy troops to Portland was blocked by a judge in Oregon.
Donald Trump is also seeking to federalize the Illinois national guard, which would involve moving them from state to federal jurisdiction.
Houston Intercontinental Airport, this week.
Texas is doubling down on stupid.
I saw some dumbfuck wearing a “Make America Tennessee” t-shirt on some Youtube - I think it was some left-wing guy debating a bunch of Taco fans.
I mean…just WTAF. If I had to pick a state to fashion all of America after, it’d be California. Tennessee? I mean…JFC.
They need to be reminded of that the next time their power grid shits itself and they want another bailout.