Mmmm… Maybe

 Morning Joe:

With that in mind, and with court cases pending challenging Trump’s right to declare an emergency and send in the troops, contravening the Posse Comitatus Act, MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire told the “Morning Joe“ panel Trump may try an end-around.

“There is a sense with terms of Chicago, the National Guard, we've raised the idea that the president doesn't have the authority to do so, that no decision has been made,” he explained. “But I've been told by some in the administration that the guard would be deployed to safeguard ICE raids, to therefore provide security to ICE agents, much like that was the pretense in Los Angeles.”

“To protect federal buildings and to protect federal agents,” co-host Joe Scarborough interjected. “That is what they did in LA,” Lemire agreed. “The thought is that might be how they try to – the bank shot to get some of these guard troops to Chicago. That pretense would, first of all, would accelerate these ICE raids, which I know many in the community do not want. But secondly, would allow the president to have a show of force, have his troops in the city with perhaps more legally justifiable means. That's being considered.”

Except in LA the protests and “interference” with ICE came first. That provided what the courts considered legitimate grounds to protect federal personnel and buildings, especially when people were setting cars on fire.

Absent that, Trump’s got no grounds to “protect” ICE.

Change the facts, change the outcome.