Supreme Court rules on legality of Trump National Guard deployment to Chicago

Illinois sues Trump administration over National Guard deployment Fox News senior correspondent Mike Tobin reports on Illinois suing to block the Trump administration from its National Guard deployment in Chicago. Fox News contributor Gianno Caldwell also provides analysis on ‘The Faulkner Focus.’ The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration's request to allow the president to proceed with immediately deploying National Guard troops to Chicago - delivering a blow, if temporary, to President Donald Trump as he seeks to expand his federalization push across the U.S. The justices declined the Trump 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 outcome is a rare Supreme Court setback for Trump, who had won repeated victories in emergency appeals since he took office again in January. Members of the D.C. National Guard are seen in downtown D.C. near the U.S. Capitol building on Aug. 19, 2025. (Kevin Lamarque/File Photo/Reuters) The update comes after the Trump administration asked the high court last week to stay a lower court order blocking Trump from immediately deploying federalized National Guard troops to Chicago. U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued in the administration's appeal to the Supreme Court that a federal judge's earlier order, as well as the partial stay granted by a unanimous 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, "improperly impinges on the president’s authority and needlessly endangers federal personnel and property." Blocking the deployment of National Guard troops , Sauer argued, risks "jeopardizing the lives and safety of DHS officers," and prevents officials from taking what he argued are "reasonable and lawful measures" to protect federal agents from the "violent resistance" that they argue has persisted in Chicago. Lawyers for Illinois and Chicago disputed that contention, however. They argued in a Supreme Court filing of their own that the Trump administration's arguments "rest on mischaracterizations of the factual record or the lower courts' views of the legal principles." They also cited the lower court judge’s order, which found the administration’s declarations about the nature of the protests in Chicago and nearby Broadview were "unreliable" and overstated the violence and difficulties officers faced enforcing the law. The U.S. Capitol is seen as members of the National Guard patrol the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 8, 2025. ((Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images) ) "As the district court found, state and local law enforcement officers have handled isolated protest activities in Illinois, and there is no credible evidence to the contrary," lawyers for the state of Illinois said Monday. The update comes as Trump has sought to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops to a growing list of Democratic-led cities, despite stated opposition from local and state leaders. He has faced opposition from a handful of federal courts, including U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut ,...

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