Overview
- The justices rejected the administration’s emergency request to lift a lower-court order, keeping any National Guard deployment to Chicago on hold.
- U.S. District Judge April Perry issued the October 9 injunction, later upheld on appeal, after finding the government’s assertions about violent protests unconvincing.
- The Court’s majority concluded the administration had not shown a legal basis for military enforcement in Illinois, with three conservative justices dissenting.
- The decision is temporary but could influence related lawsuits over similar deployments in Democratic-run cities, including ongoing litigation in Portland.
- Soon after the ruling, the Pentagon said 350 Guard members will be sent to New Orleans to support Homeland Security and ICE operations.