The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to halt a lower court’s block on its ability to send the National Guard to Illinois.
In a filing on Oct. 17, the Justice Department said that a district court judge in Illinois had “impermissibly substitut[ed] the court’s own judgment for the President’s on military matters.”
U.S. District Judge April Perry issued an order on Oct. 9 that prevented the administration from federalizing and deploying National Guard troops within the state. Perry said that the administration was likely violating the 10th Amendment and that deploying the National Guard would likely lead to civil unrest….