"Solicitor General D. John Sauer, representing the government, told the justices that the court order blocking the deployment of the National Guard "improperly impinges on the president's authority and needlessly endangers federal personnel and property." Illinois Governor JB Pritzker posted to X after the Trump administration's request to the conservative-dominated Supreme Court that he would continue to defend the sovereignty of his state. "Militarizing our communities against their will is not only un-American but also leads us down a dangerous path for our democracy,""
"President Donald Trump has pushed to send troops to Chicago, adding to a number of Democratic-led cities where the US president has attempted to deploy troops under the pretext of combatting crime and assisting immigration agents. But Democrats have accused Trump of overstepping his authority to intimidate his political rivals. Pritzker previously said: "This is not about fighting crime. This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city in a blue state"
The Trump administration filed an emergency application asking the Supreme Court to allow National Guard deployment to the Chicago area after an appeals court upheld a lower-court injunction blocking troops in Illinois. The Solicitor General argued that the injunction improperly impinges on presidential authority and endangers federal personnel and property. Governor JB Pritzker vowed to defend state sovereignty and condemned militarizing communities. Democrats accused the administration of using troop deployments to intimidate political rivals and target Democratic-led cities. The case tests federal versus state authority and may be decided by a conservative 6-3 Supreme Court majority.
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