President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court, for the first time, to clear the way for him to use National Guard troops to support the president\u2019s immigration enforcement and mass deportation drive.<\/p>\n
Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed an\u00a0emergency appeal\u00a0with the high court Friday, seeking to lift lower-court rulings that are currently preventing Trump from deploying National Guard troops he pressed into federal service to aid Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel in Illinois.<\/p>\n
Sauer argued that a temporary restraining order issued by a federal district judge in Illinois \u201cimproperly impinges on the President\u2019s authority and needlessly endangers federal personnel and property.\u201d<\/p>\n
In response to the appeal, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat,\u00a0said on X: \u201cDonald Trump will keep trying to invade Illinois with troops \u2014 and we will keep defending the sovereignty of our state. Militarizing our communities against their will is not only un-American but also leads us down a dangerous path for our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n
The appeal marks the first time the high court will consider Trump\u2019s efforts to federalize state-run National Guard troops and deploy them into states led by Democratic governors who have opposed the extraordinary moves. It comes one day after a federal appeals court panel voted, 3-0,\u00a0to leave in place the Chicago-based district judge\u2019s restraining order\u00a0that prevents Trump from putting the guard troops on the streets in Illinois.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolitical opposition is not rebellion,\u201d the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals panel wrote, rejecting the Trump administration\u2019s argument that immigration-related protests amounted to the sort of extreme threat to government authority that is needed for the president to have authority under federal law to deploy the guard.<\/p>\n
The rulings in Illinois followed similar decisions from federal district judges in California and Oregon blocking deployments in those states. The judges said Trump had made false claims of uncontrolled violence and infringed on states\u2019 power to manage their own law enforcement challenges.<\/p>\n
One of the judges \u2014 a Trump appointee in Oregon \u2014\u00a0concluded earlier this month\u00a0that Trump\u2019s basis for federalizing Oregon troops to deploy them in Portland was \u201cuntethered\u201d from reality and warned the effort risked normalizing the use of military troops against Americans in ways the founders had warned against.<\/p>\n
But courts have not ruled uniformly against Trump\u2019s use of the National Guard. In June, the administration\u00a0won orders\u00a0from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals\u00a0allowing deployments\u00a0in Los Angeles to continue.<\/p>\n
The Oregon judge\u2019s ruling is also currently on appeal at the 9th Circuit. When a panel of that court heard arguments last week,\u00a0a majority of the judges seemed inclined to allow the troops\u00a0to be put on the street.<\/p>\n
In addition to the Chicago area, Portland and Los Angeles, Trump has ordered the military into Memphis, Tennessee and Washington, D.C., citing claims of uncontrolled violent crime that local officials have sharply rejected.<\/p>\n
The deployments have inflamed tensions with Democratic governors and city leaders, who say the presence of troops has stoked, rather than calmed, civil unrest.<\/p>\n
Sauer\u2019s filing with the high court Friday frames the dispute as one about the president\u2019s powers to control the military, rather than a difference of opinion about law enforcement tactics. The emergency appeal makes 11 references to Trump as \u201ccommander in chief,\u201d including by accusing the 7th Circuit of putting itself \u201cin the untenable position of controlling the military chain of command and judicially micromanaging the exercise of the President\u2019s Commander-in-Chief powers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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