Federal appeals court agrees with lower court ruling blocking Trump from deploying National Guard in Illinois
...but that he can keep troops deployed (I guess the ones that withdrew to the AF base) in place.
___A federal appeals court said Saturday that it will not allow President Donald Trump to deploy the National Guard in Illinois, largely preserving a ruling that had suspended his administration’s campaign to send troops into the Chicago area.
The Chicago-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, however, said that the president could federalize the Guard for now, as the appeals court said it will later decide on that question. It is unclear what they will be doing without the ability to deploy.
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge April M. Perry, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, blocked the troop deployment in a ruling from the bench on Thursday. She described a “lack of credibility” in declarations submitted by federal officials in the case. In a written order issued the following day, Perry said she had also noticed “a troubling trend” of the declarations “equating protest with riots.”
Perry blocked Trump’s effort to deploy troops in and around Chicago, concluding that it was “likely to lead to civil unrest.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/appeals-court-bars-trump-from-deploying-national-guard-in-illinois/ar-AA1OhMkY
A federal appeals court on Saturday partially restored President Trump’s control of the National Guard in Chicago and across Illinois, but prevented him from being able to actually deploy servicemembers in the Prairie State.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit granted the Trump administration’s request for an administrative stay in part, meaning the president is allowed to federalize the National Guard in Illinois. The appeals court, however, denied the administration’s request to be able to deploy the National Guard. Unless further ordered by the court to do so, troops do not need to return to their home states, the order also reads.
“The effect of granting an administrative stay preserves the status quo in which National Guard members have been federalized but not deployed,” a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit wrote in a brief order.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5551166-appeals-court-trump-national-guard-chicago/
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