Supreme Court Blocks National Guard Deployment to Chicago Area
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WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked President Trump from sending the National Guard into the Chicago area, dealing a rare loss to the president on an issue of executive power.
The decision, issued in a brief order on the court’s emergency docket, is the first time the justices have weighed in on Trump’s efforts to dispatch the military to American cities. Though the order is preliminary and applies only in Illinois, it suggests that the court is unwilling to rubber-stamp Trump’s assertions of broad authority to use the National Guard to manage protests and violent crime.
“At this preliminary stage, the Government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois,” the court wrote.
Three conservative justices—Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch—dissented.
In early October, Trump called up several hundred National Guard members, saying he needed the troops to protect federal immigration agents at a detention facility in Broadview, Ill., just outside Chicago. The jail has been the site of persistent protests against Trump’s deportation policies.
Two lower courts deemed the deployment of the Guard likely illegal and temporarily blocked it. In an emergency appeal , the Trump administration requested a rapid decision from the Supreme Court, claiming that the lower-court rulings had created “ongoing and intolerable risks to the lives and safety of federal personnel.”
But the justices didn’t act quickly. The court allowed the case to linger for more than two months—an unusually long time for an emergency appeal—before rejecting the administration’s request.
The ruling keeps the deployment blocked for now while litigation proceeds in the lower courts.
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Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch—dissented.
A display of shocking loyalty from the usual suspects!
Crime in Chicago is down considerably this year. Trump and MAGA have been allowed to wildly exaggerate what it is like in Chicago.
If Chicago is so dangerous why do tens of millions visit the city every year ?
Believe it or not this is a good thing.
It keeps the Guard out of harm's way. Let the dems have their violent crime ridden cities. In the meantime, Trump gets to say I tried to clean it up but activist judges wouldn't let me.
The only thing left is the obvious contradiction of Courts allowing Eisenhower & JFK to use the Guard to defend black students.
And it puts the blame exactly where it should be - on Democrat run shitholes.
Businesses and taxpayers are fleeing.
They're leaving Illinois and California in record numbers. And the Democrats can't figure out that they are the reason. It doesn't help when Democrats are saying residents might kill ICE against is operations continue.
All the while the Democrats and the left keep trying to gaslight everybody into believing the right are the violent ones.
California requires an article devoted to it.
Is it true that of the houses lost in the January fires, only one has been rebuilt?
Is the state planning to rezone those areas for public housing?
And that is all on Newsome's idiotic policies and requirements for rebuilding. I can't ignore the fact that this is also a state that burns EVERY. YEAR. and they do absolutely nothing about it.
I heard something about that but nothing definitive enough to say for certain. Not that it would be affordable enough for many to use.