President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he’s withdrawing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland but left the door open to sending federal forces “in a much different and stronger form.”

His announcement comes after the US Supreme Court last week rejected his request to allow him to deploy the guard to Chicago to protect ICE agents as part of the administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown.

“We are removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, despite the fact that CRIME has been greatly reduced by having these great Patriots in those cities, and ONLY by that fact,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, arguing that those cities would be “gone if it weren’t for the Federal Government stepping in.”

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        Yeah the Supreme Court believes in almost completely unlimited presidential power but I guess permanent martial law was just a bit too far even for them.

        But don’t worry, the federalist society will soon be hard at work finding new stooges who won’t have such moral qualms.

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      It’s not “stopping” him, as much as it is just “delaying” him.

      There’s only one way to stop him.