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.
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.