"The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area to support its immigration crackdown. The justices declined the Republican administration's emergency request to overturn a ruling by U.S. District Judge April Perry that had blocked the deployment of troops. An appeals court also had refused to step in. The Supreme Court took more than two months to act. Three justices, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, publicly dissented."
"The high court order is not a final ruling but it could affect other lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump's attempts to deploy the military in other Democratic-led cities. The outcome is a rare Supreme Court setback for Trump, who had won repeated victories in emergency appeals since he took office again in January. The conservative-dominated court has allowed Trump to ban transgender people from the military, claw back billions of dollars of congressionally approved federal spending, move aggressively against immigrants"
"The Trump administration has argued that the troops are needed to protect federal personnel and property from violent resistance against the enforcement of federal immigration laws. But Perry wrote that she found no substantial evidence that a danger of rebellion is brewing in Illinois and no reason to believe the protests there had gotten in the way of Trump's immigration crackdown."
The Supreme Court declined an emergency request to allow National Guard deployments to the Chicago area for an immigration enforcement operation, leaving in place a district judge's injunction. An appeals court had also refused to intervene, and the high court took more than two months to act. Three justices publicly dissented from the denial. The order is not a final ruling and could influence other lawsuits over proposed military deployments to Democratic-led cities. The administration argued troops were needed to protect federal personnel and property, while the district judge found no substantial evidence of an imminent rebellion or that protests impeded enforcement.
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