'Illinois is NOT a place you can conquer... PERIOD': Pritzker denounces Trump's federal takeover
MSNBCยท2025-10-16 18:19
Every president in modern history has understood the gravity and seriousness of deploying troops abroad and in very rare and urgent occasions at home. Every president except one. In 1965, Lynden B.Johnson federalized the Alabama National Guard and sent additional backup to protect Martin Luther King and civil rights leaders peacefully marching to Montgomery. In 1992, at the request of the California governor and mayor of Los Angeles, President George HW Bush agreed to activate the National Guard and provide ...