A US appeals court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s administration request to lift a lower court’s prohibition on deploying the National Guard in Chicago. President Trump ordered hundreds of National Guard troops to Chicago, asserting they were necessary to combat crime and safeguard immigration agents and facilities in America’s third-largest city, AP image reported. The three-judge panel determined that the administration had failed to demonstrate that conditions in the Illinois city warranted the troop deployment. “Even after affording great deference to the president’s evaluation of the circumstances, we see insufficient evidence of a rebellion or danger of rebellion in Illinois,” the court stated. “The spirited, sustained, and occasionally violent actions of demonstrators in protest of the federal government’s immigration policies and actions, without more, does not give rise to a danger of rebellion against the government’s authority.” “The administration remains barred from deploying the National Guard of the United States within Illinois,” the court added. Illinois and the city of Chicago initiated the lawsuit to prevent the deployment, a strategy also employed by authorities in Oregon to block the sending of National Guard troops to Portland. Illinois and Oregon are not the first states to challenge the Trump administration’s extensive domestic use of the National Guard. Democratic-ruled California filed a suit after the Republican president dispatched troops to Los Angeles earlier this year to quell demonstrations triggered by a federal crackdown on undocumented. migrants. A district court judge deemed the deployment unlawful, but an appeals court panel allowed it to proceed.
