A red flag in something JB Pritzker said:

[Chasstev365]

Pritzker:

"We have reason to believe that the Trump administration has already begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment in Illinois," Pritzker said."

How can unrequested National Guard troops being from one state to another by a president possibly legal?

[Irish_Dem]

1. We know Texan males tend to wear big hats to compensate for ____________.

[ZDU]

2. Beers, Steers & Queers

[mwmisses4289]

3. Reason everything is bigger in texass!

[RockRaven]

4. When did legality have anything to do with Trump or the National Guard?

Laws are tools for the powerful to use to hurt powerless, not to be bound by themselves.

[marble falls]

5. A plot requires plotting. No red flag, TACO is not ad libbing regardless how stupid, illegal, unconstitutional ...

... his plots and plottings are.

[TommyT139]

6. Invasion should be met with deadly force.

[Arazi]

7. That would be an invasion

And every Dem should phrase it like that.

“Illinois has been invaded by Texas armed forces”

[Scrivener7]

8. Malcolm Nance said stop comparing this to the rise of the Nazis. Start comparing it to the occupation

of New York in 1775 when suddenly residents were forced to put British soldiers up in their homes, and the soldiers were everywhere on the streets preparing to fight the residents. And then they did.

We should compare it to that because we're close to that.

[roamer65]

9. Blockade the bridges over the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

That will help prevent heavy equipment from entry into Illinois.

[Chasstev365]

10. Oh, that's good!

[ashredux]

11. Having Ben in the Texas National Guard many years ago, I've never heard of such...

[KentuckyWoman]

12. Isn't Texas more Democrat?

Isn't that why they have to rig the vote? Fair maps would sink the Repyblicans in Texas. Well, most states.

[LeftInTX]

23. No.

[Frasier Balzov]

13. Governors from multiple states sent NG to DC.

Is a Presidential activation even being used in the case of Illinois?

It could just be an unlawful invasion by Trump-friendly states.

With the federal government being the only authority with the power to stop it.

Which it won't.

[CanonRay]

14. DC is a Federal district. Illinois is a sovereign state.

Big difference.

[Frasier Balzov]

15. If Texas invades Illinois

does Illinois shoot at them?

I think not.

And if Trump hasn't formally activated anyone, is he in violation of the Court's ruling In Re Los Angeles?

[CanonRay]

17. I could see Pritzker blockading the bridges

with the Illinois National Guard

[AdamGG]

16. I think that legally it's Congress that needs to request a deployment in DC

It's not supposed to be something that the President alone can do. But, this Congress and this SCOTUS are absent in their duties to preserve constitutional checks and balances.

[James48]

19. Under the Home Rule Act

He can become emergency manager for a period up to 30 days.

If Comgress authorizes, it can be longer. But so far, neither House nor Senate have taken up a bill to extend DC military past the 30th day, which would be September 8, isn’t it?

[hadEnuf]

18. Trump is pushing for a red state to invade a blue state.

That should give the southern civil war morons wet dreams.

This is symbolic. The red states are practically Confederate at this point and Trump is stroking that to the hilt.

[Gore1FL]

20. I don't think National Gaurd Troops serving in other sates is unprecidented.

It's their use as shock troops againsts U.S. citizens that's unique. In this instance, it isn't their origins that concern me.

[LeftInTX]

24. Doesn't the governor request them though?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

21. FWIW: A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that Texas "is not preparing to deploy troops to Illinois," ...

Anna Bower
‪@annabower.bsky.social‬

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FWIW: A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that Texas “is not preparing to deploy troops to Illinois,” per the Austin American-Statesman.

https://www.statesman.com/politics/texas/article/national-guard-chicago-abbott-21027479.php

Gov. Greg Abbott's office disputed a claim from Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday that the Texas National Guard was preparing to deploy to his state as part of a law and order crackdown by the Trump administration.
Texas is not preparing to deploy troops to Illinois, a spokesman for Abbott said on
Tuesday afternoon.
ALT

‪Anna Bower‬
‪@annabower.bsky.social‬
· 5h
If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control.

That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state.

And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
September 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM

Anna Bower
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If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control.

That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state.

And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.

‪Quinta Jurecic‬
‪@qjurecic.bsky.social‬
· 6h
this is almost certainly under Title 32 authorities (meaning the TX guard will be nominally under TX state control but on a federal mission), meaning the posse comitatus issues that came up in California will not apply. that said, it raises a whole lot of other legal problems
September 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM

If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control.

That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state.

And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.

— Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) 2025-09-02T21:50:11.280Z

[misanthrope]

22. I have more faith in Pritzker

I think Abbott is lying.