Supreme Court Allows Lower Court Injunction of National Guard Deployment in Chicago to Stand
NPR reports that the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that National Guard troops must stay out of Chicago. The decision is from the Court's emergency docket. A 6-3 Court (with Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissenting) ruled that the president failed to explain why the situation in Chicago warranted an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act, which limits the military's ability to execute laws on U.S. soil.
As an emergency ruling, it applies only to this specific case in Illinois, not to troop deployments elsewhere. "But deployments in other cities are currently tied up in litigation in lower courts, and . . . lower court judges tend to look to these emergency decisions for guidance."
Amy Howe for SCOTUSBlog summarizes the Court's ruling.
