SCOTUSblog by Amy Howe 10/29/2025
The Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon asked the litigants in the challenge to President Donald Trump’s effort to deploy the National Guard to Illinois to file supplemental briefs addressing the interpretation of the law on which Trump relied in his Oct. 4 memorandum calling up the National Guard.
Trump cited efforts “to disrupt the faithful enforcement of Federal law” by “violent groups” that “have sought to impede the deportation and removal of criminal aliens through violent demonstrations, intimidation, and sabotage of Federal operations.” Based on his determination that “the regular forces of the United States are not sufficient to ensure the laws of the United States are faithfully executed, including in Chicago,” he “call[ed] into Federal service at least 300 members of the Illinois National Guard.”
The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago went to federal court in Chicago, seeking to block Trump’s deployment of the National Guard. U.S. District Judge April Perry on Oct. 9 issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting Trump “from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois” for two weeks; she later extended that order. Perry explained in an opinion accompanying her order that, among other things, the Trump administration had “made no attempt to rely on the regular forces before resorting to federalization of the National Guard,” and it had not contended “(nor is there any evidence to suggest) that the President is incapable with the regular forces of executing the laws.”
More:
https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/supreme-court-requests-further-information-in-case-concerning-trumps-deployment-of-national-guard/
