The court obeys the law: Supreme Court hands Trump rare defeat on National Guard deployment to Chicago

The court obeys the law: Supreme Court hands Trump rare defeat on National Guard deployment to Chicago

Last week the Supreme Court gave the country one notable gift in blocking the Trump administration’s efforts to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, part of a campaign of intimidation that has seen troops deploy now to various (invariably heavily Democratic) areas. Six justices said no to Trump, Chief John Roberts, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson, while only three stood with him: Claren…