Overview
- The ruling is preliminary and keeps Judge April Perry’s injunction intact after lower courts declined emergency intervention.
- Justices Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch dissented, while Justice Kavanaugh concurred in the outcome but urged a narrower rationale.
- The administration had planned to use Guard units from Illinois and Texas to protect ICE personnel; roughly 200 Texas troops were sent home and about 300 Illinois Guard members remain on standby.
- Citing protests at ICE’s Broadview facility, the government reported injuries to four agents and 21 arrests, but Perry found no significant evidence of a looming “danger of insurrection.”
- Parallel cases are unfolding as courts in Oregon and California curtailed deployments, Tennessee officials won a state court halt in Memphis, and D.C.’s attorney general challenges a larger activation with 45 states weighing in.