Wild that Trump has sent armed military into Illinois from red state Texas as he muses about 'jailing' the Dem governor

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6. Pritzker threatens to exit governors association over Texas troop deployment to Illinois

On Monday, Pritzker sent a letter to the National Governors Association Chair Kevin Stitt, urging him to denounce a plan to send members of the Texas National Guard to Illinois to assist the Illinois National Guard in defending federal agents conducting immigration enforcement in Chicago.

“This is precisely the federal and interstate overreach we warned against — gubernatorial authority being trampled, state sovereignty being ignored, and the constitutional balance between states being attacked,” Pritzker in his letter. “If the President continues overriding Governors to deploy military assets into another state against another Governor’s will, we have abandoned the foundational principles that have protected our Republic for nearly 250 years.”

“The credibility of the National Governors Association — and our integrity as state executives—rests on our willingness to apply our principles consistently, regardless of which administration attacks them. Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization. I remain hopeful that principled leadership will prevail over political calculation and we can chart a path forward together,” he continued.

letter: https://gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker-presses-chair-of-national-governors-association-to-denounce-deployment-of-texas-national-guard-in-illinois#attachment-d97c2f23-357b-4a64-9e33-ed8808080c6e