The US Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration’s bid to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area, over the objections of local and state officials.<\/p>\n
In an unsigned order, the top court said the president’s ability to federalise the National Guard likely only applies in “exceptional” circumstances.<\/p>\n
The National Guard consists of primarily state-based troops that typically respond to major issues like natural disasters or large protests.<\/p>\n
The ruling marks a rare departure for the conservative-majority court which has largely sided with the Trump administration in recent months. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker called it “a big win for Illinois and American democracy”.<\/p>\n
The Chicago deployment is part of a series of efforts by the Trump administration to subdue protests against federal immigration raids in primarily Democrat-led cities, including New Orleans, Portland and Washington DC.<\/p>\n
Trump argues that his use of troops is necessary to quell violence in Democratic-controlled cities, crack down on crime and support his deportation initiatives. <\/p>\n
But two lower courts ruled against Trump’s assertion that the protests in the Chicago area constituted a “rebellion or danger of rebellion” against the US. <\/p>\n
The president appealed against it in the Supreme Court and argued that its decision to deploy the National Guard was not subject to court review.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the justices left in place the lower court’s ruling.<\/p>\n
“At this preliminary stage, the Government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois,” the justices wrote in in a 6-3 ruling. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented.<\/p>\n
The Supreme Court’s move largely keeps the status quo in one of the nation’s largest cities. <\/p>\n
While the president has been deploying troops to major US cities for months – despite legal challenges – this is the first time the top court has ruled on the efforts. <\/p>\n
Chicago was previously the focus of the administration’s troop efforts, but in November many of those troops were moved to New Orleans – ahead of Mardi Gras – and Minneapolis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration’s bid to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-367778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}