The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to quickly lift a lower court order that blocked the deployment of federalized National Guard troops to assist immigration officials in the Chicago area.
The application argues the decision from Judge April Perry of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois is among a pattern in cases, such as those out of Los Angeles and Portland, where judges have overreached their power and misread the law governing the president’s authority over the state-based military force.
“A federal district court lacks not only the authority but also the competence to wrest control of the military chain of command from the Commander in Chief and to adjudicate whether the Governor of Illinois, rather than the President, should be in ultimate command of particular Guardsmen after the President has called them into federal service” under a section of federal law, the petition says.
