The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled President Trump may not deploy the National Guard to the Chicago area for now amid his push for military troops to patrol the streets of Democratic-led cities, a major loss for the president at the high court.
After more than two months of consideration, the court refused to pause a district judge’s ruling temporarily blocking hundreds of National Guard members from being federalized and deployed across Illinois, rejecting the government’s emergency request.
Are they going to have to make separate rulings for every city Trump wants to invade, or does this decision apply to all of them?
This ruling upholds the Circuit Court order barring the use of national guard forces specifically in Chicago.
A separate order was issued in the ninth circuit barring the use of national guard forces in Portland. That has been appealed and was waiting for this decision.
It’s unlikely the administration will prevail in lifting the order in Portland now that this decision was made against their favor.
Yeah, that’s kind of what I was asking. I know that a lower court has also ruled that deploying them in DC was also illegal…pending appeal. And if I recall, they said the same thing about California…also still pending appeal, or something.
It really does seem like they’re going to have to get the Super Court involved in every state, separately…even though the rulings are all based on the same arguments.
Well to be fair, SCOTUS hasn’t ruled on the merits yet. This decision just upholds the lower court’s TRO.
If the court grants cert for the actual case, we’d see some kind of precedent established. It’s very unlikely they’d rule narrowly and limit the scope to a single deployment since the administration’s argument is consistent across all of them.
At some point, one of the PedoCon justices will make a statement about the kind of case they’d like to handle, and some MAGA law firm will craft a case with the proper language, and SCOTUS will approve it, and we’ll all be under military control.