Overview

• The Seventh Circuit issued a partial administrative stay allowing federalization to continue but keeping Guard troops from deploying in Illinois pending further briefing.
• U.S. District Judge April Perry’s earlier order had halted federalization and deployment, citing no credible evidence of a rebellion and calling federal assessments unreliable.
• The Justice Department sought an emergency stay after Perry’s ruling, arguing the judge improperly intruded on the president’s military judgments during an ongoing immigration enforcement push.
• U.S. Northern Command said roughly 300 Illinois Guard members and about 200 from Texas remain in the Chicago area in planning and training status and are not conducting operations.
• Similar court fights are playing out in the West, where appellate judges have likewise preserved federal control of Guard units but continued to block deployments while cases proceed.