* Tribune…

As Chicago prepares for federal agents and soldiers to arrive in the city, a group of military veterans, attorneys and advocates urged service members to resist potentially unlawful orders from the Trump administration if deployed.

Veterans and lawyers from About Face: Veterans Against the War, the National Lawyers Guild and Movement Law Lab outlined options for National Guard members to follow their conscience in the face of what advocates and Democratic politicians say are illegal federal military operations. […]

While Gov. JB Pritzker has previously called a potential National Guard deployment to Chicago “unlawful,” advocates asked him to increase his support for service members who resist Trump’s orders. Specifically, they said Pritzker should order Illinois National Guard members to resist federal orders if deployed in Chicago — in his capacity as their commander-in-chief — as well as lend state legal resources to aid service members who resist.

Um, he can’t legally “order” soldiers to disobey a federal order.

* Pritzker was asked about that story today…

Q: Governor, if the Guard does get called up, there are some advocates who have called for you to in your capacity as Commander in Chief of the Illinois National Guard to order Guard members here in the state not to obey that call. Is that something you’ve considered or evaluated? What other resources can the state make available?

Pritzker: We’re going to immediately go to court. If National Guard or other military troops are sent to deploy to the city of Chicago, immediately go to court. So that’s going to be our first line of defense is getting a court to issue a TRO or other injunction against that activity.

There is no way for me to override - state law does not override federal law. So we have to abide by the law.

We do that in the state of Illinois, we abide by the law. We abide by state law and federal law, unlike the President of the United States, who often acts in unconstitutional fashions. So we’re going to do everything we can, again, to alleviate the challenge on the people of Chicago, if in fact, the President is trying to bring troops into Chicago, military troops, but, but you know, he has the ability to call in other outside agents and does not have a legal right to call in military troops. But we’re going to have to act quickly and have a court act quickly in order to deter that.

* Crain’s…

“CHICAGO WILL BE LIBERATED.”

That’s the promise being made in a fundraising email now being circulated to supporters of President Donald Trump. […]

“The Radical Left Governors and Mayors of crime ridden cities don’t want to stop the radical crime. I wish they’d just give me a call. I’d gain respect for them,” the email states, a nod to Trump’s call for Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to seek federal help — a call Pritzker has refused to make.

“Now hear me: WE’RE GOING TO DO IT ANYWAY,” the email continues.

* Pritzker was asked about that as well…

I don’t know why anybody would fund an unconstitutional action or have a positive reaction to the idea of the president thwarting the law of the United States. So, you know, I hope that it’s unsuccessful. I know that there are, you know, some supporters of his who act in a cult-like fashion in supporting everything that he does. But let’s remember, everybody that the future of our democracy, the future of America, is on the line, and supporting the activity of thwarting the US Constitution is antithetical to all of that.

* Sun-Times…

Pilsen’s Mexican Independence Day parade will be held with additional precautions this weekend amid the threat of immigration raids and the arrival of National Guard troops looming over the city, its organizer said.

Volunteers stationed along the route will carry radios, cellphones and whistles to quickly report any issues, said Rigoberto Gonzalez Jr., executive director of the Pilsen Chamber of Commerce.

“We want people to feel safe,” he said.

Gonzalez said he never doubted the parade, scheduled to step of in Pilsen noon Saturday, would be canceled in light of the new threats of immigration raids and President Donald Trump’s potential deployment of National Guard.

Gov. JB Pritzker said Tuesday he believes immigration raids are being timed to coincide to Mexican Independence Day celebrations.

* From the presser…

Q: Governor, what is your advice to those who might want to celebrate this weekend’s Mexican Independence Day… Are you telling them to stay home?

Pritzker: I’m telling people to know your rights, be extra careful, and know that there is the possibility that ice will be on the ground and causing some mayhem. Don’t play into their hands. And if you have the opportunity, please protest. Pull out your phone, video everything that they’re doing - whether it’s an iPhone, an Android, whatever you’ve got, and make sure that the media sees it.