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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. Illinois's Democratic governor, J.B. Pritzker,

says President Trump is intentionally escalating violence in Chicago amid crackdowns on crime and illegal

immigration in the city.

Pritzker said he thinks Trump is using federal law enforcement as political props. Let me be clear. Donald Trump is using our service members as political props and as pawns in his

illegal effort to militarize our nation's cities.

Illinois and Chicago are suing to stop Trump from sending National Guard troops to the city.

The White House says the troops are addressing what it calls ongoing violent riots and lawlessness.

ICE agents have targeted immigrant heavy and largely Latino areas.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson says it's up to Democrats to, quote,

stop the madness on the six day of the government shutdown. He's calling for the passage of a stop

gap spending bill that already passed the House, but is stalled in the Senate. Democrats want to

extend health insurance subsidies set to expire at the end of the year. President Trump and

fellow Republicans want to temporarily

preserve current spending. The government may be shut down, but the federal courts are still open.

NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on the new term of the U.S. Supreme Court, which began today.

The court's docket includes many muscular assertions of presidential power, assertions that likely will have a

willing audience at a court dominated by a majority more conservative than at any time since the

early 1930s. Bottom line, the court could end up overturning a nearly century-old decision

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