Overview
- Illinois asked the Supreme Court to reject President Trump's emergency bid to deploy the National Guard in Chicago, arguing he exceeded his authority and misrepresented the record.
- The Ninth Circuit, in a 2–1 ruling, overturned one of two temporary restraining orders that had blocked sending Oregon National Guard troops to Portland, finding the president likely acted within §12406(3).
- The Seventh Circuit eased a lower-court block in Illinois by allowing federalization of Guard units but confined them to a reserve base outside Chicago rather than city streets.
- U.S. District Judge April Perry previously halted deployment in Illinois, calling federal assertions of coordinated protest violence unreliable as troops remain staged but off the streets.
- Oregon’s assistant attorney general argued that Portland demonstrations did not meet the statute’s triggers, pushing back on the administration’s portrayal of violence to justify federalization.