""This is another one of those amazing decisions from an appellate panel that just wouldn't accept that acts of protest and civil disobedience happening on the streets are a "rebellion" just because the president keeps yelling "rebellion.""
""Yes, and it's important that this was a cross-ideological panel-Judges Ilana Rovner, David Hamilton, and Amy St. Eve. Judge Rovner is a left-leaning George H.W. Bush appointee. Judge Hamilton is an Obama appointee. Judge St. Eve is a Trump appointee, and while she's not MAGA, she's very conservative. What links these three, I think, is that they were all district court judges before they were elevated to the 7 th Circuit. And they understand something that the Supreme Court's Republican appointees don't get: Fact-finding is the province of the district co"
""substantial deference""
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit refused to halt a district court order blocking Donald Trump's mobilization of the National Guard in Illinois. The decision prevents the administration from deploying Guard troops into Chicago. The court said it gave "substantial deference" to the commander in chief's views but found no credible evidence that widespread violence currently plagues the city. The Justice Department filed an emergency stay request with the Supreme Court. The appellate panel included Judges Ilana Rovner, David Hamilton, and Amy St. Eve, all former district judges who emphasized that fact-finding belongs to district courts.
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