The government shutdown continues due to Democrat obstruction. Nobody is quite sure why, including Democrats.
Chicago and Oregon are trying to end Trump’s “fascism” through the courts. But do these Leftist states have a case? Let’s look at the actual laws they are using.
And the permissions structure that allows for violence against Conservatives is solidified by the media after a Virginia politicians makes some rather unseemly comments.
Just Dumb
Bad Bunny’s real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio.
Chicago IS NOT Supportive of This!
According to the New York Post:
Chicago police officers en route to help federal agents who were being surrounded and menaced by an angry mob of ICE protesters were seemingly ordered by their chief of patrol to stand down and not provide assistance, stunning dispatch audio and internal messages reveal.
The group of agents was conducting a routine patrol on the city’s South Side on Saturday “when they were attacked and rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars,” the Department of Homeland Security said.
The agents were on patrol about 15 miles from the anti-ICE protests that had been simmering for several days outside the ICE processing center in the Chicago suburb of Broadview when the attack began.
Once they attempted to flee their trapped vehicle, a woman — later found to be toting a semi-automatic weapon — attempted to run the officers down, but was shot by police.
Local cops were initially prepared to help the agents, but were ordered to stand down by the chief of patrol, according to shocking dispatch audio transmissions.
“Younger male Hispanic wearing all black … wanted for the hit-and-run, this guy fled from the scene,” a female dispatcher blares in response to a call for help from the surrounded ICE agents on audio shared by ExxAlerts.
“When the offending vehicle crashed, they ran the federal agent off the road, they fled on foot westbound.”
A male voice then comes on the radio channel, telling the dispatcher to direct officers to head to the scene and “stay put” a few blocks away and await further instruction, which she relays.
A few seconds later, the male voice is heard again, saying tersely: “Per the chief of patrol: Clear everybody out, we’re not responding over there.”
The female dispatcher then tells officers on the way to the distress call, “per the chief of patrol, all units clear out from there, we’re not sending anybody out to that location.”
A male officer responds over the sound of sirens wailing in the background, saying, “We’re going to clear out as soon as we can, we’re like blocked in over here so we’re going to do the best we can to get out of here as soon as we can.”
An internal department memo sent to Chicago cops and obtained by Fox News confirms the shocking reversal.
“PLEASE CHIEF OF PATROL NO UNITS WILL RESPOND TO THIS AS RELATED FROM 04-Oc5-2025/12:34:44…CALLER IS 1 OF APPROX 30 ARMED PATROL AGENTS (ICE) WHO ARE BEING SURROUNDED BY A LARGE CROWD OF PEOPLE REQUESTING CPD,” the dispatch message read.
Brandon Johnson’s response:
Not only is he lying, he signed a bill allowing criminals to feel safe from federal authorities:
Some things:
- Chicagoans do not believe in this:
- I used to live in Chicago.
- I have family in Chicago.
- Nobody thinks this guys is a good mayor.
- This guy has a 7% approval rate.
- Crime is bad enough in Chicago without illegal aliens.
- There are 50 shootings a weekend in Chicago.
- The gang problem in Chicago is not because of illegal aliens.
- ICE is not dealing with the real problem in Chicago.
- Brandon Johnson has no authority over ICE. His EO is worthless.
- Riots against ICE has broken out.
- This is a reason Trump will have no problem sending out the National Guard (more on that later).
- We need more arrests of these people.
Here We Go Again
According to Fox News:
A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s efforts to deploy National Guard troops into Portland in a late-night decision on Sunday.
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut ruled the action was unlawful and unconstitutional, issuing an emergency temporary restraining order to halt the deployment of California’s National Guard. The order also bars the use of troops from any other state or Washington, D.C. in Oregon.
Immergut’s ruling says that the Trump administration’s action violates federal statute 10 U.S.C. §12406 and the Tenth Amendment.
“It appears to violate both 10 U.S.C. §12406 and the Tenth Amendment,” Immergut said during the proceeding, according to reporting from Adam Klasfeld of AllRise News.
Immergut also pressed Justice Department attorney Eric Hamilton on why the DOJ continued to pursue troop movements.
“How could bringing in federalized National Guard from California not be in direct contravention of the TRO that I issued yesterday?” she asked.
“You’re an officer of the court. Aren’t defendants circumventing my order?”
Hamilton went on to deny any wrongdoing but did offer a defense to which Immergut pushed back.
“You have to have a colorable claim that Oregon conditions warrant deploying the National Guard — you don’t.”
Here is the law:
10 U.S. Code § 12406 – National Guard in Federal service: call
Whenever—
(1) the United States, or any of the Commonwealths or possessions, is invaded or is in danger of invasion by a foreign nation;
(2) there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States; or
(3) the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States;
the President may call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard of any State in such numbers as he considers necessary to repel the invasion, suppress the rebellion, or execute those laws. Orders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the States or, in the case of the District of Columbia, through the commanding general of the National Guard of the District of Columbia.
The Tenth Amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-judge-blocks-trumps-national-guard-deployment-portland-amid-constitutional-challenge
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/12406