The US Supreme Court on Tuesday kept the block on Trump’s National Guard deployment in Chicago in place… for now.
The high court rejected President Trump’s request to halt the lower court’s order in a 6-3 decision.
Conservative Justices Gorsuch, Thomas, and Alito dissented.
CBS News reported:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a bid by the Trump administration to deploy National Guard members to the Chicago area while a legal challenge moves forward, delivering a setback to President Trump in his effort to use federalized troops in Illinois to ensure enforcement of federal immigration laws.
The high court left untouched a judge’s decision blocking the government from putting National Guard members on the streets of Chicago and surrounding areas. The Trump administration had urged the Supreme Court to allow the extraordinary move to deploy the troops over the objection of Illinois’ Democratic governor, arguing that federal courts cannot second-guess the president’s decision to call the National Guard into federal service.
But the Supreme Court declined the administration’s request to freeze that order in a decision that appears to be 6-3. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch noted their dissents.
President Trump previously mobilized Texas National Guard Troops and sent them to Chicago to protect ICE agents from violent far-left Antifa terrorists.
A federal judge in October issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) blocking President Trump’s National Guard deployment in Chicago.
US District Judge April Perry, a Biden appointee, said Trump’s troop deployment violates the Posse Comitatus Act as well as the 10th and 14th Amendments.
The Seventh Circuit unanimously upheld Judge Perry’s order blocking President Trump’s troop deployment.
The three-judge panel included: Rovner (George H. W. Bush), Hamilton (Obama) and St. Eve (George W. Bush).
The appeals court judges agreed with Judge Perry’s assertion that there was “insufficient evidence of rebellion or a danger of a rebellion.”
In October, President Trump asked the US Supreme Court to intervene and allow National Guard troops to be deployed in Chicago.
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