The court also rebuffed the administration’s argument that judges have no power to review the president’s decisions to federalize the National Guard.
A federal appeals court has extended an order blocking Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops in Chicago, saying the administration is unable to show that there is an organized rebellion nor that officials are otherwise unable to uphold law and order in the city.
The ruling on Thursday from a three-judge panel of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals extends a previous order that allowed Trump to federalize certain National Guard troops but blocked him from deploying troops in the city.
The panel — which consisted of a Trump appointee, an Obama appointee and a George H. W. Bush appointee — also rejected the administration’s argument that federal courts have no power to review a president’s underlying determinations in deciding to federalize troops. That question of judicial authority has cropped up in several similar lawsuits challenging deployments in Democrat-run cities.
Supreme Court shadow docket here we come!
Seriously. If the lower court’s decision is correct, take your time responding to appeals. The high court of the land showed us using the system to run out the clock on Trump’s criminal cases was ok, might as well follow their lead to promote actual justice.
Yeah, they’re getting their capes on…