Trump Asks Supreme Court to Federalize Illinois National Guard for ICE Operations

The Trump administration filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court seeking to override lower court rulings that blocked the federal government from deploying Illinois National Guard troops to assist ICE immigration enforcement. Federal district and appeals courts had ruled that the President lacked authority to federalize a state's National Guard over the governor's objection absent a congressional declaration or national emergency meeting statutory requirements. The application tested the limits of the President's commander-in-chief power over state militias.