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Donald Trump's federalized Militarized National Guard in Illinois. Stay in your barracks. We have a new decision over the weekend. In breaking news, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals sits in Illinois over all Illinois federal courts. Very similar to the ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has said to Donald Trump, you can mobilize, but you can't deploy. You can take them over, you can leave them in their barracks, but don't put them on the streets of Illinois until we've had full briefing and we've had a opportunity to make our ruling almost identical to what the ninth Circuit Court of Appeals did about Judge Immergat's decision in Oregon. That's the. That's the same reason those National Guardsmen are staying in their barracks. I cover it all right here on the Midas Dutch network and Legal af, thanks for being here with us. All right, let's talk about how we got here. Against the backdrop of all of that, we've got Donald Trump, J.D. vance, and the real President of the United States, at least for domestic policy, is Stephen Miller using the language of insurrection. Not only that, but Stephen Miller, who formed a law firm that sounded suspiciously like Legal AF while he was in exile the first time, called America First Legal, has actually asked the 7th Circuit for permission to file a brief in support of the Trump administration. I mean, how many, how many players are there gonna be allowed? Too many players on the field. Judges. They've already got their Department of Justice, they've already got their Solicitor General, they've already got Stephen Miller in the White House. Now we need a law firm controlled by Stephen Miller filing briefs to support the Trump administration. I hope the 7th Circuit rejects that. Let's start with how we got here. The 7th Circuit decision, which I'm gonna post up on legal AF substack and some clips from over the weekend and beyond just to show you what we're dealing with. Threat of the Insurrection act, which has been invoked about 30 times in American history. The last time in 1992 when L. A got a little bit out of control. Parts of it anyway, during the Rodney King riots. It requires that there be a rebellion or domestic violence as, as pointed out by the president to exercise it. And then he can federalize and militarize everything against the American people. And he's been threatening it. Now that the 7th Circuit has ruled, get ready. We're getting closer. If the insurrection clock is not at midnight yet, but it's getting awful close. Let's start with Judge Perry. Two judges last week, Judge Perry and Judge Ellis issued or companion orders about the Donald Trump's use of the National Guard on the streets. First, Judge Ellis ruled if the National Guard is going to be on the streets or the military is going to be on the streets, you got to abide by the First Amendment and civil liberties. And you can't fire pepper balls into the face of clergy, people, clergymen wearing the cloth, journalists or protesters. The fact that a federal judge had to write that do not, you are blocked, you are enjoined from firing pepper balls, using riot gear, using militarized riot gear against journalists and members of the clergy and First Amendment protesters is shameful. But she did, she had a long list, we have it up on legal AF substack, a long list of military grade riot gear from pepper balls to non lethal rifles, whatever that's supposed to be. I mean a bullet in your head is probably going to cause you damage regardless. Zip ties and missile launchers and, and gas, use of gas for dispersion. I mean we've seen video of a guy in a frog, a person in a frog suit protesting and a ICE officer or National Guard putting a pepper ball, shooting it into his costume. It's just mind boggling. So then we had the second order a day later from Judge Perry in which she cited to Alexander Hamilton and the threat of tyranny when a president uses the military or militarized federalized state militia against the American people, citing back to Alexander Hamilton, the Federalist Papers citing back to the Declaration of Independence about we, about why our founders left England and the threat of a standing army by King George and the fact that he's not allowed Donald Trump to have his own set of facts, own deference to facts when there was no out of control domestic violence or rebellion on the streets of Illinois to justify at all the use of the military or the commandeering of the military by the president. And she wrote it in her order and stopped them from employing it similar to what the ninth Circuit, sorry, what Judge Immergut did in Oregon, although based on the 9th Circuit oral argument dominated by two Trumpers. I'm not so sure any Part of Judge Immerse order is going to stand, but they did for now, stay the deployment in Oregon. Fast forward to Chicago on the heels of Oregon. Judge Immergut, I can see a lot of Judge Immergut's ruling and analysis in Judge Perry's ruling and Judge Ellis's ruling. While that's all going on, we get an order from the 7th Circuit on Saturday which effectively adopts the same logic as the 9th Circuit a week earlier. It says and we'll put it up on the screen effect and we'll put it up on legal AF substack. For now, administrative stay, just for the purposes of till we get through the appeal and briefing mobilization, meaning the takeover of the guard under section 124 06. We're going to allow it, not not making a decision about the substance and the merits of it, whether the grounds for taking over the National Guard were present. But stay in your barracks. We're not letting you out. We're not letting you deploy. That's a win for Judge Perry and for Chicago and the Illinois attorney general for sure now. Well, it's only an administrative stay. And then we had if you check the docket, which of course I did, which is the electronic version of everything that's been filed or requested to be filed in the case you've got, I spotted America First Legal. We always follow them because they're trading on our name. America First Legal, which is Stephen Miller's, the White House deputy chief of staff, but he holds much more power than that title would reflect. He, his organization is filing a brief in support of Trump. How many briefs does Trump get? He gets his brief, his Department of Justice brief. He gets this shadow Department of Justice brief from Stephen Miller. And then you had in the wake of all of this, that was Saturday. Sunday, JD Vance goes on Kristen Welker, Meet the Press and starts talking about the Insurrection act again. Let's play that clip. Let me ask you, of course, there's a major legal battle underway about the administration's deployment of the National Guard. It does come as NBC News is reporting that the administration has been seriously.