[U] Nope -- Trump Possesses ZERO Lawful Authority To "Arrest" The IL Gov. And/Or The Chic. Mayor. [Y A W N. Small Handed Dotard Edition.]

Update | Thurs. @ 5 PM: USDC Judge April Perry in her oral ruling Thursday granted Illinois and co-plaintiffs in part, an emergency motion to stop the president from deploying troops, the Chicago Tribune has reported. End updated portion.

This comes down to a policy disagreement: Illinois intends to keep complying with the US Constitution's promises to. . . all of us -- "we the people".

Trump targets those he disfavors (mostly for asserting these same rights) with lawless executive orders/actions, and preposterous "orders" to Bondi to indict his opponents. Today he is calling for the arrest of the sitting Chicago Mayor (a Black man) -- and the sitting Illinois Governor (a Jewish man), JB Pritzker.

Surprising no one, both are Democratic office holders, duly elected by the people of Illinois -- and both support the US Supreme Court approved 'Sanctuary City' ordinances and state laws here.

[Those were passed by our city council, and state legislature, respectively. Individual towns, down-state, have "opted out" of that measure -- under an express option to do so. No one is being coerced to thwart ICE. Just as ICE is not welcome inside the Cook County jail.] Here's the NYT, on the the latest installment of the theatre of the absurd -- from Trump:

. . .President Trump said on Wednesday that Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago should be jailed, escalating his campaign of retribution against those he sees as his political foes.

Both Mr. Pritzker and Mr. Johnson are Democrats who have opposed Mr. Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to the Chicago area and have criticized the aggressive way in which the Trump administration has carried out immigration raids. Mr. Johnson has signed an executive order to establish “ICE-free zones” in Chicago to prevent federal agents from staging operations.

“Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!” Mr. Trump wrote on his Truth Social site.

Both Mr. Johnson and Mr. Pritzker said in social media posts that they would not pull back. “This is not the first time Trump has tried to have a Black man unjustly arrested,” Mr. Johnson said. “I’m not going anywhere.”

And Mr. Pritzker said: “Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives, for checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?”

Not much. . . not much at all, Mr. Governor -- other than the fact that he is wholly impotent. And, Mr. Pritzker's ancestors know only too well -- what creeping authoritarianism looks like -- they had escaped Europe, to avoid the coming of the. . . Holocaust. So, I'd trust him -- when he speaks of such matters. Damn.

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