Texas National Guard troops assembled at the Army Reserve Training Center in Elwood, Illinois, on Oct. 7, 2025. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Sauer wrote that the judge's ruling "intrudes on the president’s authority and needlessly puts federal personnel and property at risk."
The plea to the nation’s top court further escalates Trump’s standoff with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who have staunchly opposed deploying troops. They have called any deployment unconstitutional and insisted the city is not facing the kind of crime crisis the White House claims.
Eleven protesters were arrested Friday outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Broadview, a west Chicago suburb that has become a frequent flashpoint for demonstrations against federal agents in recent weeks.
Trump has already deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and Memphis, Tenn., to help curb violent crime. He has said the moved caused crime to plummet in those areas.
Earlier this week, the president floated the idea of invoking the Insurrection Act to tackle violent crime in Chicago and urged Pritzker to "beg for help" from the federal government.
President Donald Trump wants the National Guard to protect federal personnel and federal property amid protests over immigration enforcement in Illinois. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP)
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"You know, we lose with radical-left judges at the lower level, but we’re winning on appeal. So we’ll see what happens," Trump said.
The conservative-dominated court has handed Trump repeated victories in emergency appeals since he took office in January, after lower courts have ruled against him and often over the objection of the three liberal justices.
The court has allowed Trump to ban transgender people from the military, claw back billions of dollars of congressionally approved federal spending, move aggressively against illegal immigrants and fire the Senate-confirmed leaders of independent federal agencies.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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