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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Three conservative Supreme Court justices join liberals to block Trump’s troop deployment to Chicago

Donald Trump cannot deploy National Guard troops to Chicago, for now, after the Supreme Court refused to allow the administration to send in the military to support immigration enforcement.

Tuesday’s unsigned order from the justices appeared to reject the administration’s argument that protests against the president’s anti-immigration agenda are so volatile that only the National Guard, under Trump’s orders, can stop them.

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