JB Pritzker’s legal challenge to stop National Guard reaching Chicago fails

Prominent Democrat accuses US president of attempting an ‘act of occupation by the military’

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Prominent Democrat accuses US president of attempting an ‘act of occupation by the military’

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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker also accuses Republican US president of pushing to ‘manufacture a crisis’ to abuse power.

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