The Supreme Court has rebuffed President Donald Trump’s attempt to deploy National Guard troops in Illinois to protect federal officials carrying out his mass-deportation policy.In their ruling Tuesday, the justices noted that federal law generally bars use of the military for law enforcement, and they declared that the law Trump used to activate the Guard is likely to only apply when regular armed forces — the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines — are insufficient to maintain order.“At this preliminary stage, the Government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois,” the high court said in an unsigned order released more than two months after the administration asked the justices to weigh in.Three conservative justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch — dissented, while another conservative, Brett Kavanaugh, declined to join the majority’s explanation of the ruling.The Supreme Court’s decision turned down the administration’s bid to lift lower court orders that halted the president’s plan to use 500 National Guard soldiers from Illinois and Texas to respond to protests and unrest at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in suburban Chicago.The ruling is a rare loss for the president following a string of wins he has racked up on the high court’s emergency docket in the first year of his second term. The justices cleared the way for him to fire leaders of federal agencies, dismiss tens of thousands of government employees and halt thousands of federal grants and contracts.>https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/23/supreme-court-national-guard-ruling-00704962
>>1468653 (Cont)And while the decision is not a final one on the legal issues at stake in the National Guard deployments, it is a significant setback for the president in a battle with Democratic leaders who have taken legal action to resist his efforts to advance his immigration agenda by putting federalized troops on the streets in several major cities.Trump’s attempt to deploy the National Guard to Illinois in September followed similar moves he made earlier this year in Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.Federal appeals judges initially sided with the president over the Southern California deployment, but later allowed a lower-court order blocking further use of the troops to remain in place. A district court judge’s order halting the use of Guard troops in Oregon also remains in effect.District and appeals court judges have also sharply rejected Trump’s bid to borrow National Guard troops from cooperative red states and send them into Democratic-led cities and states over the objection of governors and mayors. But the Supreme Court didn’t weigh in on that question.OTHER SOURCES:>https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/23/politics/supreme-court-blocks-trump-national-guard-chicago>https://www.wbez.org/donald-trump/2025/12/23/supreme-court-trump-national-guard-illinois>https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5661555-supreme-court-blocks-trump-guard/
Pozzed cities like Chicongo can either do something about their chimp problem or the feds can.
>>1468669Actually the feds can't lmao. Piss off.
>>1468670I wish they fucking could and that Trump was half the tyrant dems make him out to be. MY hometown which used to be a white paradise before it turned into a barrel of monkeys can sure use some law and order!
>>1468672Supreme Court has ruled against you.
>>1468653Do you think the company that supplies the litter pickers those troops were going to use to collect candy wrappers and soda bottles are going to sue Chicago for lost revenue?
>>1468675And that sucks.
At least the fascist right should be happy that the most corrupt republican judges like Thomas and Alito will always rubber stamp what they want.
>>1468682Happily, Thomas and Alito are also the oldest judges on the bench and are both only a few years younger than Old Man TrumpIf Democrats get serious about the next few elections they may be able to start reversing the damage done by W and Trump in the next ten years
>>1468683If Dems had balls, they'd pull a page from trump and the republicans and delegitimize to further justify judicial reform.
>>1468691If the dems had any balls Trump wouldn't be president in the first place. They're just an arm of the uniparty now.
>>1468705That's a given, Reagan and George HW Bush would be be in prison for Iran contra.And then Geroge W Bush and most of his administration would stand trial for crimes against humanity at the ICC. And trump for everything.
>>1468669>do something about their chimp problemAnd that's just Nick Fuentes
>>1468691The dems had 4 years under Biden to absolutely castrate conservativism forever. They should have held onto power like a drowning man to a log, but they didn't realize or didn't want to admit that the rules of the game had changed. They just carried on with the status quo.If they had any balls the republican party would not even exist right now.
>>1468767unfortunately, those who gamble their lives only know they've lost when they're dead
>>1468767That's the huge problem with the democrats starting with Clinton, they shifted extremely hard to the right as part of their triangulation strategy and are under this deluded belief the system will be able to protect itself.If Biden played hard ball and went after trump and his coup co-conspirators, day 1, we wouldn't be in this mess because while the republicans still defended trump, I doubt they'd fight to the death to defend his coup against an aggressive AG.
>>1468791>If Biden played hard ball Biden couldn't even speak in complete sentences on TV. If Dems wanted to hold onto power they would have produced better candidates post-Obama but instead decided to go for a repeat of 2016 with another woman who was even less popular than Hillary and somehow expected a different result.
>>1468800Biden didn't need to speak. The people standing behind him puppeteering him could have made bolder decisions.>instead decided to go for a repeat of 2016 with another woman who was even less popular than Hillary and somehow expected a different resultDemocrat hubris knows no bounds. They've lived in a little bubble world for so long I doubt they have any idea what people would vote for.
>>1468653Another L for the orange man. He's had a bad month.
>>1468800>>1468801That's the problem with the right wing uniparty that controls the country.We need to go hard left FDR style and rain in the banksters and billionares and put the power and money back into the hands of the people.And a pox on any puppet who wants the corrupt, authoritarian and criminal status quo of the republicans.
>>1468677kys about it
>>1468810>He's had a bad monthAnd he's going to have a far worse twelve months due to the midterms next year.Democrat schadenfreude knows no bounds due to Republican hubris knowing no depths: certainly of depravity.Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal!https://i.postimg.cc/DZCwwT2W/home-alone-2-trump.jpg...and a Happy New Year.
