U.S. District Judge April M. Perry placed a temporary restraining order (TRO) on President Donald Trump’s order to send the National Guard anywhere in Illinois.
Trump only threatened to send the troops to Chicago.
The TRO expires on October 23.
Perry told DOJ lawyers that she “observed a ‘lack of credibility’ in several declarations” made by people in the Trump administration, according to The Washington Post.
The judge also wanted to know “how broadly troops might be used.”
“I am very much struggling to figure out where this would ever stop,” Perry told the DOJ.
That’s an apparent reference to Trump’s attempt to deploy the National Guard to Portland after deploying them in Los Angeles and DC.
A few days ago, Trump authorized the deployment of the National Guard from Texas to Chicago.
On October 6, Illinois immediately sued to stop the troops.
That same day, Perry refused to issue a TRO at that time, wanting to wait for Thursday’s oral arguments.
Numerous reports came out that the troops arrived in Chicago on October 7, including The Chicago Tribune:
Tribune journalists saw multiple military members, dressed in camouflage and carrying long guns, on federal property in Elwood, a far southwest suburb that is home to a U.S. Army Reserve training center. Soldiers, who wore “T” patches on their arms identical to the ones shown in a picture tweeted by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday, could be seen walking in and out of mobile sleeping units on the site.On Monday, a defense contractor told the Tribune that he was setting up sleeper units, showers and a dining hall for 250 people at the makeshift base.
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