From the Associated Press: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area to support its immigration crackdown.
The justices declined the Republican administration’s emergency request to overturn a ruling by U.S. District Judge April Perry that had blocked the deployment of troops. An appeals court also had refused to step in. The Supreme Court took more than two months to act.
Three justices, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, publicly dissented.
The high court order is not a final ruling but it could affect other lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s attempts to deploy the military in other Democratic-led cities.
The outcome is a rare Supreme Court setback for Trump, who had won repeated victories in emergency appeals since he took office again in January. The conservative-dominated court has allowed Trump to ban transgender people from the military, claw back billions of dollars of congressionally approved federal spending, move aggressively against immigrants and fire the Senate-confirmed leaders of independent federal agencies.
BREAKING: Supreme Court won’t let Trump deploy the National Guard in Chicago. Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch dissent. pic.twitter.com/GfpMnCJdIa
— Katelynn Richardson (@katesrichardson) December 23, 2025
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court keeps President Trump’s National Guard deployment blocked in the Chicago area for now. https://t.co/xoVSjFw8NS
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 23, 2025
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