Judge Perry said that deploying the National Guard on the streets of Chicago would only make an already volatile situation worse. She said that troops are “not trained in de-escalation or other extremely important law enforcement functions that would help to quell these problems,” and mobilizing them would “only add fuel to the fire that the defendants themselves have started.”

On Wednesday, Montana became the first state in the US to ban the app TikTok. “Today, Montana takes the most decisive action of any state...