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Trump Urges SCOTUS To Allow National Guard To Deploy In Chicago

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President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago. The
President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago.
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals declined to halt a lower court decision Thursday blocking Trump from sending troops to the area.
Letting the lower court’s order stand would “immediately increase the risk that federal personnel in Chicago may be seriously harmed by violent anti-ICE agitators,” Solicitor General John Sauer wrote in the administration’s application.
“[The ruling] deprives DHS officers of the protections that the President sought to give them from ongoing violence, prevents the Guard from ensuring the enforcement of federal law, and puts lives and property in danger,” Sauer wrote.

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