Overview
- Marking one year since President Trump’s return to office, Attorney General Kwame Raoul called it “365 days of chaos” and cast his pushback as a defense of civil rights and the rule of law.
- Raoul’s office says it filed or joined 51 lawsuits and submitted more than 100 amicus briefs targeting funding cuts, immigration tactics, education rules, limits on gender-affirming care, and environmental rollbacks.
- Raoul credited litigation—coupled with the U.S. Supreme Court leaving a lower-court block in place—with halting an attempt to deploy the National Guard to Chicago.
- The AG is challenging what he calls an “occupation” by federal immigration agents, alleging the use of tear gas and other chemical agents in Chicago and other cities.
- Governor J.B. Pritzker held a roundtable criticizing tariffs, rising costs and reduced services, while President Trump highlighted task forces and Guard actions he says reduced crime in cities such as Washington, D.C., and Memphis.