Washington — President Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow the deployment of National Guard members in Illinois.
The Justice Department is asking the high court to freeze a lower court order that blocked the Trump administration from ordering the federalization and deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois. A U.S. appeals court on Thursday upheld the decision as to the deployment of service members, but allowed the Guard to remain under federal service while legal proceedings continue.
In a request for emergency relief, Solicitor General D. John Sauer said the order from a U.S. district court judge “countermands the exercise of the President’s Commander-in-Chief authority and projects its own authority into the military chain of command.”
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