Washington — Washington (AFP) – supreme court On Tuesday, she refused to let the Trump administration spread National Guard forces In the Chicago area to support her anti-immigration campaign, a major defeat for the president’s efforts to send troops to American cities.
The justices rejected the Republican administration’s emergency request to overturn a ruling issued by US District Court Judge April Perry Publication prohibited Of the troops. The Court of Appeal also refused to intervene. The Supreme Court took more than two months to act.
Three justices — Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch — dissented publicly.
The Supreme Court’s order is not a final ruling but could affect other lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s attempts to deploy the military in other Democratic-led cities.
“At this preliminary stage, the government has failed to identify the source of authority that would allow the military to enforce the laws in Illinois,” the Supreme Court majority wrote.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh said he agreed with the decision to keep the deployment of troops in Chicago prohibited, but it would have left the president more freedom to deploy troops in possible future scenarios.
The outcome represents a rare Supreme Court setback for Trump, who has won repeated victories in emergency appeals since taking office again in January. The conservative-dominated court allowed Trump to do so Banning transgender people from the militaryrestoring billions of dollars in federal spending approved by Congress, moving aggressively against immigrants and removing Senate-confirmed Senate leaders. Independent federal agencies.
Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker hailed Tuesday’s decision as a victory for the state and the nation.
“America’s cities, suburbs and communities should not face masked federal agents asking for their papers, judging them by their appearance or voice, and living in fear that the president will be able to deploy the military on their streets,” he said.
On the other hand, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said that the president activated the National Guard to protect federal employees and property from “violent rioters.”
She added: “Nothing in today’s ruling detracts from that core agenda. The administration will continue to work day in and day out to protect the American people.”
Alito and Thomas said in their dissent that the court had no basis to reject Trump’s claim that the administration needed troops to enforce immigration laws. Gorsuch said he would narrowly side with the government based on statements by federal law enforcement officials.
The administration initially requested the order to allow the deployment of troops from Illinois and Texas, but the Texas contingent of about 200 National Guard soldiers was later withdrawn. Sent home from Chicago.
The Trump administration said the troops were needed “to protect federal employees and property from violent resistance to federal immigration enforcement.”
But Perry wrote that she found no concrete evidence that a “threat of insurrection” is brewing in Illinois, and no reason to believe that protests there have hampered Trump’s anti-immigration campaign.
Perry had initially blocked publication for two weeks. But in October, it extended the order indefinitely while the Supreme Court heard the case.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the western Chicago suburb of Broadview has been the site of tense protests, with federal agents previously using tear gas and other chemicals on protesters and journalists.
Last month, authorities arrested 21 protesters and said four officers were injured outside the Broadview facility. Local authorities made arrests.
The Illinois case is just one of several legal battles over the National Guard deployment.
District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb A lawsuit is being filed to stop the deployment of more than 2,000 guardsmen in the country’s capital. Forty-five countries have made deposits In federal court in the case, with 23 votes supporting the administration’s action and 22 votes supporting the attorney general’s lawsuit.
More than 2,200 troops from several Republican-led states remain in Washington, although the crime emergency declared by Trump in August ended a month later.
A federal judge in Oregon permanently banned it Deployment of National Guard forces thereAll 200 California troops will be sent home from Oregon, an official said.
A Tennessee state court ruled in favor of the Democratic officials who sued to stop Continuing Guard deployment in Memphiswhich Trump described as an exact copy of it His crackdown on Washington, D.C
In californiaa judge said in September Deployment in the Los Angeles area was illegal. By that moment, only 300 of the thousands of soldiers who had been sent there remained, and the judge had not ordered them to leave.
The Trump administration has appealed the rulings in California and Oregon to the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Associated Press writers Lindsay Whitehurst and Sophia Tarin in Chicago contributed to this story.