That same month, U.S. District Judge April Perry ruled<\/a> that the federal government did not meet the burden needed to send the National Guard into Illinois and issued a temporary restraining order blocking the mobilization of those troops. In an unsigned order released Tuesday,<\/a> the Supreme Court denied the Trump administration\u2019s request to freeze the order.<\/p>\n The Supreme Court ruling states the president can only federalize the National Guard in \u201cexceptional\u201d circumstances, which the Trump administration has not yet met or demonstrated. <\/p>\n \u201cAt this preliminary stage, the government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois,\u201d the court wrote. <\/p>\n Conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch dissented from the opinion. Alito wrote that \u201cinjuries, threats, vandalism and harassment\u201d directed toward immigration agents in Chicago have \u201csignificantly impaired efforts to execute the laws.\u201d He also said local police departments have \u201cprovided insufficient assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n In ruling against Trump, the Supreme Court sided with the state of Illinois and others who brought the suit challenging the deployment of National Guard troops locally<\/a>. Local officials have repeatedly said they do not want or need the National Guard deployed in the area.<\/p>\n Though troops from Texas and Illinois were federalized, and the troops from Texas stationed at a military installation outside Joliet, the troops were never deployed in the Chicago area. Members of the Texas National Guard left the area in November<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251001_ICE-Protests-BCC_MH-042-1024x683.jpg\")
Protestors demonstrating against ICE and the National Guard deployment gather in Downtown on Oct. 8, 2025. Credit: Mustafa Hussain for Block Club Chicago<\/p>\n