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Federal judge declines to immediately block National Guard deployment in Illinois

From left: Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, President Trump. Both Oregon and Illinois are suing the Trump administration in federal court over the possible deployment of the National Guard to their states.

Illinois asked a judge to block the Trump administration from federalizing the Illinois National Guard and from sending Guard members from other states, but the judge declined to do so, for now.

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