Supreme Court Blocks Trump From Deploying National Guard in Chicago

The Supreme Court on December 23 declined to allow the Trump administration to immediately deploy the National Guard in Chicago, rejecting the government’s bid to lift a lower-court block on the federalization of troops amid legal challenges. With dissent from Justices Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch, the unsigned order found that at this stage the administration had not shown legal authority to federalize Guard forces to protect federal personnel in Illinois — marking a notable setback in broader Trump efforts to expand military involvement in domestic law enforcement.

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