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The Supreme Court has barred President Trump from deploying the National Guard to Chicago to help protect ICE agents and other federal law enforcement there.
This comes after months of oftentimes violent protests from local radical left-wing groups—and numerous arrests, including at least one armed ambush of ICE officers.
The Court said in an unsigned order: “At this preliminary stage, the government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois.”
Justice Samuel Alito has written a dissent, blasting the courts ruling as being "unwise" and "imprudent." Justices Thomas and Gorsuch also both dissented.
Justice Alito's dissent read in part, "Under the Court’s interpretation, National Guard members could arrest and process aliens who are subject to deportation, but they would lack statutory authorization to perform purely protective functions." He went on to say, "Our country has traditionally been wary of using soldiers as domestic police, but it has been comfortable with their use for purely protective purposes."