Chicago, Portland clash with Trump over National Guard
Here & Now Anytime
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🗓️ 6 October 2025
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Then, we get the latest on the power struggle between the Trump administration and Chicago as the administration promises to send the National Guard to the city, following a week of clashes between protesters and immigration officials. The Chicago Sun-Times' Violet Miller joins us.
And, the Supreme Court begins its new term on Monday, with a number of major cases testing executive power on its emergency docket. Stephen Vladeck, law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, tells us what to expect.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for here and now anytime comes from MathWorks, creator of MATLAB and Simulink software for technical computing and model-based design. |
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| 0:16.9 | WBUR Podcasts, Boston. |
| 0:22.7 | He is violating the rights of American citizens in American cities. |
| 0:29.1 | Protesters in Portland and Chicago are fighting back against militarized immigration raids. |
| 0:35.7 | Now the president says he's sending in the National Guard. |
| 0:47.5 | It's Monday, October 6th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WVR. I'm Chris Bentley. |
| 0:58.5 | Today on the show, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from sending the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, |
| 1:03.4 | and Illinois is suing the administration over what it calls an illegal, dangerous, and unconstitutional |
| 1:09.4 | federalization of troops in Chicago. |
| 1:12.9 | That is how the government Illinois is viewing this. |
| 1:15.9 | You know, now there's a move to protect federal agents or property, |
| 1:18.7 | but as kind of a military threat or an occupation. |
| 1:21.7 | I think Illinois's governor last night put it as an invasion. |
| 1:25.2 | Also, the Supreme Court is back in session. |
| 1:29.3 | Oh, yay, oh, yay, oh, yeah, all persons having business before, the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| 1:36.9 | We'll have a look at the major cases on the court's docket this new term. |
| 1:40.5 | Expect to hear the phrase presidential power a lot. |
| 1:45.0 | But first, it was a tense and at times violent weekend in Chicago, where federal agents have |
| 1:52.3 | been escalating immigration raids and confronting protesters. |
| 1:56.9 | Operation Midway Blitz is what the Department of Homeland Security is calling its militarized |
| 2:01.9 | immigration enforcement in Illinois. Agents have fired pepperballs, tear gas, and rubber bullets |
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