\n A federal appeals court ruled Saturday the National Guard troops in Illinois can remain under federal control but can\u2019t be deployed as the appeals process continues in the ongoing showdown between the Trump administration and the state.\n <\/p>\n
\n The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to temporarily pause part of a lower court\u2019s order this week that halted deployments of National Guard troops in the state for two weeks<\/a> \u2013 the latest in a bicoastal court saga over whether President Donald Trump is exceeding his authority by deploying troops to quell demonstrations outside ICE facilities near Democratic-led cities like Chicago and Portland.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cMembers of the National Guard do not need to return to their home states unless further ordered by a court to do so,\u201d the order says.\n <\/p>\n \n Troops in the Chicago area are now engaged in \u201cplanning and training,\u201d but \u201cnot conducting any operational activities at this time,\u201d US Northern Command said in a Friday update.\n <\/p>\n \n There were 300 members of the Illinois National Guard and 200 members of the Texas National Guard activated under Title 10 and in the Chicago area as of Wednesday, the command previously said.\n <\/p>\n \n The Trump administration had filed a notice of appeal this week against US District Court Judge April Perry\u2019s decision Thursday to grant a temporary restraining order blocking Trump\u2019s National Guard deployment in Illinois.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cI have seen no credible evidence that there has been rebellion in the state of Illinois\u201d that would justify federalizing National Guard soldiers, Perry said in her ruling, calling Department of Homeland Security assessments of the protests \u201cunreliable.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Sending in troops would \u201conly add fuel to the fire,\u201d the judge added.\n <\/p>\n \n Leaders in areas like Illinois and Oregon have emphatically disputed the Trump administration\u2019s characterizations of their cities as \u201cwar-ravaged\u201d and uncontrollably violent, arguing in court that the situation on the ground is not as extreme as federal officials are portraying it to be.\n <\/p>\n \n On the West Coast, a three-judge panel with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is still weighing whether the Trump administration should be blocked from federalizing the Oregon National Guard to respond to ICE protests in Portland. They have yet to release a decision, though state Attorney General Dan Rayfield<\/a> on Thursday said he expects a ruling \u201cin the coming days.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal appeals court ruled Saturday the National Guard troops in Illinois can remain under federal control but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-206047","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\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}