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Supreme Court Opens Door to 82nd Airborne in Chicago, Ex-Thomas Clerk Says
Newsweek

The U.S. Supreme Court's Tuesday decision against Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard in Illinois had the "unintended consequence" of potentially pushing the president to deploy active-duty military units instead, legal scholar John Yoo, who previously clerked for conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, said Wednesday.

"The unintended consequence here might be that the president is going to have to call the 82nd Airborne, or the Marines, or the 101st Airborne Division, as, for example, President Eisenhower did, after Brown v. Board of Education in the South to enforce desegregation," Yoo, the Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, said in an interview with Fox News.

"President Trump might have to do that first, in order to protect those federal buildings, those ice agents, and then, if they fail, he can then call out the National Guard," he said.

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