(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump filed an emergency petition with the Supreme Court on Friday, asking them to allow him to deploy the National Guard to Chicago amid heated protests in the city against military style immigration raids.
Trump is requesting the Supreme Court toss out an order by a lower court judge that prevented the Guard from coming to the city for at least two weeks.
A district court judge had issued a temporary restraining order blocking the deployment of National Guard troops in Illinois, citing that there was no substantial evidence that a “danger of rebellion” justifying the move was occurring.
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A federal appeals court refused to put the judge’s order on hold.
The Trump administration filed an emergency appeal urging the justices to step in immediately, saying the lower court’s hold “impinges on the President’s authority and needlessly endangers federal personnel and property.”
“Federal officials and federal property are the central targets of the violence that has roiled the Chicago area in recent weeks. An immediate administrative stay would allow the Armed Forces to provide the protection that the President has directed,” the petition to the high court stated.
Trump has filed an unprecedented number of petitions to the court’s emergency docket in nearly ten months in office, and the high court has ruled in his favor on nearly all requests.
Chicago has been roiled in violent clashes between protestors and hundreds of ICE agents who were sent to the city last month under “Operation Midway Blitz.”
Authorities have detained more than a dozen people as of Friday morning in a Chicago suburb as protests continued outside an immigration processing facility.
