{"id":2509271,"date":"2025-11-11T14:23:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-tells-supreme-court-to-give-trump-extraordinary-deference-to-deploy-troops-to-chicago\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T14:24:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:24:51","slug":"doj-tells-supreme-court-to-give-trump-extraordinary-deference-to-deploy-troops-to-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-tells-supreme-court-to-give-trump-extraordinary-deference-to-deploy-troops-to-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ tells Supreme Court to give Trump &#8216;extraordinary deference&#8217; to deploy troops to Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdoj-tells-supreme-court-to-give-trump-extraordinary-deference-to-deploy-troops-to-chicago%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2509271&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), representing the Trump administration, has asked the Supreme Court to give &#8220;remarkable deference&#8221; to the president&#8217;s decision to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago.This request seeks to overturn a lower court&#8217;s order blocking the deployment. The core legal question centers on the interpretation of the term &#8220;regular forces&#8221; in 10 U.S. Code \u00a712406, which allows the president to federalize the National Guard when unable to enforce federal laws with &#8220;regular forces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ argues that &#8220;regular forces&#8221; refers only to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-vast-majority-of-law-enforcement-are-decent-honorable-people\/\" title=\"Biden Says \u2018Vast Majority\u2019 Of Law Enforcement Are \u2018Decent, Honorable People\u2019\">civilian law enforcement<\/a>, not the military, and emphasizes that the president should have broad discretion in determining when deployment is necessary, citing national security and separation-of-powers concerns. The Trump administration claims that federal immigration agents require National Guard support due to violent resistance impeding law enforcement efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, Illinois officials contend that &#8220;regular forces&#8221; include the full-time military and that the president has neither used nor proven an inability to use them, making the deployment unjustified. They also highlight legal restrictions on domestic military use, arguing the president has not met the stringent criteria for military deployment in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court is reviewing these arguments as it considers whether to allow the National Guard deployment in Chicago to proceed. This case follows similar deployments ordered by Trump to other Democratic-led cities, all facing legal challenges, with the Chicago case now before the highest court.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">DOJ tells Supreme Court to give Trump &lsquo;extraordinary deference&rsquo; to deploy troops to Chicago<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2397818\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trump-administration\/\">Trump administration<\/a> asked the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\">Supreme Court<\/a> to give &ldquo;extraordinary deference&rdquo; to the president in his decision to deploy the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/national-guard\/\">National Guard<\/a> to Chicago, as he seeks to get the justices to lift a block imposed by lower courts on the deployment.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department and Illinois officials filed additional briefs to the Supreme Court late Monday on the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3868464\/supreme-court-meaning-of-regular-forces-chicago-national-guard-case\/\">question of whether <\/a>&ldquo;regular forces,&rdquo; in the language of the law President Donald Trump invoked in his bid to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, includes the military. The law Trump cited, 10 U.S. Code &sect;12406, allows the president to federalize and deploy National Guard troops when the &ldquo;President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States,&rdquo; among other provisions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3882164\/trump-supreme-court-verdict-e-jean-carroll\/\">Trump asks Supreme Court to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-toss-verdict-in-e-jean-carroll-case\/\" title=\"... asks ... to toss verdict in E. Jean Carroll ...\">overturn sex abuse verdict<\/a> in E. 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Gay Marriage ...\">overturn gay marriage decision<\/a><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The DOJ argued the military is not included in &ldquo;regular forces,&rdquo; saying it only encompasses civilian law enforcement, while also stressing that, regardless of the definition, the president should be given considerable deference in his determinations that the requirements of the statute have been met.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It would be unprecedented and profoundly ahistorical to require the President to treat the standing military as the first line of defense for ensuring that federal laws can be executed, with the National Guard relegated only to a secondary role despite their comparative advantage,&rdquo; Solicitor General D. John Sauer said in the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/25\/25A443\/384115\/20251110170907870_25a443%20Trump%20v.%20Illinois%20-%20Supp.%20Letter%20Br.pdf\">brief<\/a>. &ldquo;Instead &hellip; the &lsquo;regular forces&rsquo; for purposes of Section 12406(3) are the civilian law-enforcement officials that regularly &lsquo;execute the laws&rsquo; currently being obstructed.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Here, those are the DHS agents charged with <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >enforcing federal immigration law<\/a> and protecting their colleagues, and the President acted well within his discretion in finding that they were unable to do their jobs without the support of the National Guard in light of the violent, organized resistance they are facing,&rdquo; Sauer continued.<\/p>\n<p>In arguing that the high court should be deferential to the president&rsquo;s decision, Sauer pointed to the &ldquo;separation-of-powers and national-security concerns&rdquo; related to any court review of the federalization and deployment of troops, noting that review should be &ldquo;highly constrained.&rdquo; The solicitor general renewed his request that the high court <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3855487\/trump-administration-asks-supreme-court-allow-national-guard-deployment-chicago\/\">allow the deployment<\/a> of National Guard troops to go forward.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois officials argued the military is included in the &ldquo;regular forces&rdquo; the president may use to execute laws, but pointed to the separate restraints on using the military in domestic settings as to why the military could also not be used in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Because &lsquo;the regular forces&rsquo; refers to the full-time, professional military, the President may federalize and deploy the National Guard under section 12406(3) only in circumstances where he is unable to execute federal law with the military. These circumstances are not met here,&rdquo; Illinois officials said in their <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/25\/25A443\/384145\/20251110210604383_Illinois%20Supplemental%20Letter%20Brief%20Master%20Final%20To%20File%20PDFA.pdf\">brief<\/a> to the high court. &ldquo;The President has not attempted to execute the laws with the regular forces in Illinois, let alone shown that he faces an inability to do so. Nor could the President even plausibly argue that the predicate conditions for domestic military deployment are met here.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As the Office of Legal Counsel has explained, absent a request for assistance by a State, the President may deploy the military domestically only in the narrowest of circumstances. Not only has the President not attempted to satisfy this exacting standard, he could not do so,&rdquo; the brief continued.<\/p>\n<p>Both the DOJ and Illinois have until next Monday to file reply briefs, after which the high court is expected to make its decision on the Trump administration&rsquo;s request to lift a lower court&rsquo;s block on the Chicago deployment.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3868464\/supreme-court-meaning-of-regular-forces-chicago-national-guard-case\/\">SUPREME COURT ZEROES IN ON MEANING OF &lsquo;REGULAR FORCES&rsquo; IN CHICAGO NATIONAL GUARD CASE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump has attempted to deploy National Guard troops to various Democrat-led cities in recent months to protect federal immigration operations that have faced unruly protests, which have devolved into violence in some instances.<\/p>\n<p>Trump first deployed troops to Los Angeles in June, later ordering the federalization and deployment of troops to Portland and Chicago. All three deployments have been met with lawsuits from each respective state, with only the Los Angeles deployment not currently barred by a federal court order. The Chicago deployment is the first one to reach the Supreme Court&rsquo;s emergency docket.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOJ urges Supreme Court to back Trump&#8217;s Chicago troop deployment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2509272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP25288733219267.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[7076,32275,3634],"class_list":["post-2509271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-doj","tag-supreme-court","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP25288733219267.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2509271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2509275,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509271\/revisions\/2509275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}