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Trump Blocked: Supreme Court Stops Federal Guard Deployment To Chicago

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Donald Trump on Tuesday.

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The U.S. Supreme Court, these days, is widely seen as a rubber stamp for President Donald Trump’s agenda. But on Tuesday, a rare SCOTUS ruling went against the president.

In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled that the president does not have the right to send the National Guard to Chicago in order to protect ICE agents.

“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,” the court said, in an unsigned order issued on its emergency docket.

Three conservatives on the court,  Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch, dissented from the decision.

“He activated the National Guard to protect federal law enforcement officers, and to ensure rioters did not destroy federal buildings and property,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement to CNN. “Nothing in today’s ruling detracts from that core agenda.”

CNN’s Supreme Court analyst,  Steve Vladeck, weighed in on the decision.

“This is a significant repudiation of President Trump’s efforts to use federal troops to supplement immigration enforcement, especially in Democratic-led jurisdictions,” Vladeck told CNN. “It’s hard to see how the administration can continue to use this obscure 1908 authority to try to deploy federalized National Guard troops.”

Vladeck went on to call the decision “by far the most significant defeat the Supreme Court has handed Trump all year.”

So what can Trump do now, if he wants to deploy troops to cities?

“The decision leaves Trump with few options if he wants to continue to deploy soldiers into cities — but not zero options. It appears likely that the president could still invoke the Insurrection Act, for instance, to deploy regular forces to Chicago and other cities. That may be a politically fraught move, however, because it challenges the longstanding prohibition on the military being used for law enforcement,” CNN said.

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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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