Washington – President Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to uphold his decision Deployment of National Guard forces in Chicago.
His lawyers filed an emergency appeal urging the court to overturn the Chicago justices’ rulings and argue that National Guard troops are necessary to protect US immigration agents from hostile protesters.
The case escalates the clash between Trump and Democratic state officials over immigration enforcement, and once again raises the issue of the use of military force in American cities. Trump’s lawyers have repeatedly gone to the Supreme Court and obtained swift rulings when lower court judges blocked his actions.
Federal law allows the president to call the National Guard into service if he cannot “execute the laws of the United States” or faces “rebellion or danger of rebellion against the authority” of the United States government.
“Both conditions are met here,” Trump’s lawyer said.
The judges in Chicago reached the opposite conclusion. US District Judge April Perry saw no “risk of insurrection” and said the laws were being enforced. She accused Trump’s lawyers of exaggerating allegations of violence and equating “protests with riots.”
She issued a restraining order on October 9, and the 7th Circuit Court agreed to keep it in place.
But Trump’s lawyers insisted that the demonstrators and demonstrators were targeting American immigration agents and preventing them from doing their work.
Lawyer General D. wrote: John Sawyer in a 40-page appeal: “Facing intolerable risks of harm to federal agents and coordinated, violent opposition to federal law enforcement, the President lawfully determines that he is unable to enforce the laws of the United States with uniformed forces and calls in the National Guard to defend federal employees, property, and jobs in the face of continuing violence.”
He said that the president has historically had full authority to decide whether to call in the militias. He said that judges should not question the president’s decision.
“Any review like this [by judges] “It must be highly deferential, as the Ninth Circuit concluded in Newsom,” referring to the ruling that upheld Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles.
Trump’s lawyer said that the deployment of forces in Los Angeles succeeded in reducing the violence.
“Despite the California Governor’s claim that the deployment of the Los Angeles National Guard will escalate.”[e]”The continuing violence that California itself failed to prevent…the President’s action had the opposite and intended effect. In the face of federal military force, violence in Los Angeles declined and the situation improved dramatically.”
But in recent weeks, “Chicago has been the scene of organized and often violent protests directed against ICE officers and other federal employees involved in enforcing federal immigration laws.” “On multiple occasions, federal officers were also beaten and punched by protesters… Rioters targeted federal officers with fireworks and threw bottles, rocks, and tear gas at them.”
“More than 30 [DHS] “Officers were injured during assaults on federal law enforcement” at the Broadview facility alone, resulting in multiple hospitalizations, he wrote.
Officials in Illinois blamed aggressive enforcement actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents for sparking the protests.
Sawyer also urged the court to issue an immediate order that would freeze Perry’s sentences.
The court requested a response from Illinois officials by Monday.