{"id":14128,"date":"2025-10-06T22:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T22:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/it-could-happen-to-your-state-next-durbin-appeals-to-gop-on-guard-deployments\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T22:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T22:02:06","slug":"it-could-happen-to-your-state-next-durbin-appeals-to-gop-on-guard-deployments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/it-could-happen-to-your-state-next-durbin-appeals-to-gop-on-guard-deployments\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It could happen to your state next&#8217;: Durbin appeals to GOP on Guard deployments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Illinois&#8217; senior senator made an appeal across the aisle Monday as President Donald Trump moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/10\/06\/oregon-illinois-california-texas-national-guard-deployments-00594639\" target=\"_blank\">deploy out-of-state National Guard troops<\/a> on the streets of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin said in a floor speech and in comments to reporters that his Republican colleagues needed to speak up against what he said is a grave constitutional crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is deploying troops into an American state and city without the permission of the governor,&#8221; he told reporters. &#8220;If you&#8217;re a student of American history, you realize what the significance of this move is. This is a president trying to assert his authority and power over a sovereign state and people who live in it. It could happen to your state next.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Durbin also said he expects the matter to come up in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday with Attorney General Pam Bondi.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the GOP response to the troop deployments in Illinois and in Oregon, which has so far been blocked by a federal judge, has been muted.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters Monday that deploying federalized National Guard troops &#8220;to protect [federal] law enforcement personnel and federal buildings &#8230; is a justifiable use of executive branch authority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like any any executive branch of the government, they always \u2014 I&#8217;ve been through lot of them \u2014 extend and try and expand as much as possible the use of executive power and authority,&#8221; he added. &#8220;There&#8217;s always a tension, a back-and-forth \u2014 stress, if you will, between the branches of the government and, in many cases, the courts have to decide it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois&#8217; senior senator made an appeal across the aisle Monday as President Donald Trump moved to deploy out-of-state National Guard troops on the streets of Chicago. Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin said in a floor speech and in comments to reporters that his Republican colleagues needed to speak up against what he said is a grave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}