WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday supreme court To allow deployment of National Guard The deployment of troops to the Chicago area is an escalating standoff between President Donald Trump and Democratic governors over the use of the military on U.S. soil.
The emergency appeal to the high court comes after a judge blocked for at least two weeks the deployment of Guard troops from Illinois and Texas to assist with immigration enforcement. A federal appeals court declined to stay the judge’s order.
The conservative-dominated court has repeatedly handed Trump victories on emergency appeals since he took office in January, after lower courts have ruled against him, often over the objections of three liberal justices. The court granted permission to President Trump. Ban transgender people from joining the militaryrestore billions of dollars in federal spending authorized by Congress, act aggressively on immigration, and remove presidentially appointed leaders. independent federal agency,
In the debate over the Guard, U.S. District Judge April Perry said she found no substantial evidence of a “risk of insurrection” in Illinois during President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
But President Trump’s top Supreme Court judge, Attorney General D. John Sauer, urged the justices to intervene immediately. Sauer wrote that Perry’s order “violates the president’s authority and unnecessarily puts federal employees and property at risk.”
A federal judge in Oregon also temporarily blocked the deployment of the National Guard to the area.
Guard troops from several states are also patrolling the nation’s capital and Memphis, Tennessee.
In the California incidentthe judge said in September. Deployment was illegal. At that point, only 300 of the thousands of troops sent remained, but the judge did not order them to leave.
