Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow His National Guard Deployment to Chicago

A lower court judge prevented the president from deploying National Guard troops there.

The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Oct. 6, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to halt a lower court’s block on its ability to send the National Guard to Illinois.

In a filing on Oct. 17, the Justice Department said that a district court judge in Illinois had “impermissibly substitut[ed] the court’s own judgment for the President’s on military matters.”