Overview
- The ruling keeps a lower-court injunction in place while the Chicago case continues.
- The majority indicated that "regular forces" likely refers to the U.S. military and found the government had not shown it was unable to execute the law with those forces.
- Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch dissented from the decision.
- Earlier decisions by U.S. District Judge April Perry and the 7th Circuit questioned claims of rebellion and found the government's descriptions of protests unreliable.
- The order could shape related challenges over deployments in Portland, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and officials say some previously dispatched Guard units are being sent home.