As U.S. President Donald Trump threatens more Democrat-led cities with unwanted occupations of National Guard troops, each local leader must figure out how to push back. Last week, it was Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker¡¯s turn. His approach was to expose Trump¡¯s threats as the unconstitutional overreach that they are.
There is no emergency in a city where violent crime has dropped by more than 30%, Pritzker said. And no one, Pritzker said, has reached out from the administration to offer help or collaboration. Instead, Trump has called Chicago ¡°a killing field,¡± and threatened to send in troops.
There¡¯s only one word for sending in the military against a state¡¯s express wishes: invasion. And Pritzker was not having it.
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