US EditionWhat to Know About Efforts to Block National Guard Deployments in Chicago, Portland, Other US Cities
The Trump administration seeks emergency Supreme Court approval amid multiple legal challenges blocking National Guard deployments in several U.S. cities, with over 300 troops in Washington, D.C.
- On Wednesday, a Chicago federal judge blocked a National Guard deployment and will hold a hearing, as the U.S. Supreme Court considers emergency relief, with courts debating the deployment's legality.
- Justice Stephen Breyer's Sept. 2 decision found the president violated the Posse Comitatus Act, and U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut issued two restraining orders this month blocking Oregon troop deployments.
- Cities from Memphis to Washington, D.C., have seen troops patrolling downtown Memphis since Oct. 10, more than 300 Guard members in Washington since late August, and a court blocking deployment of 200 Oregon National Guard troops.
- Immergut's second order remains in effect, meaning no troops may be immediately deployed to Oregon, attorneys said they would agree to possibly extend the block for 30 days, and Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued the TRO causes 'grievous and irreparable harm on the Executive.'
- Pending legal developments, Guard troops could soon be on the ground in Portland, Oregon, while a state court hearing Friday in Charleston, West Virginia, targets deployment to Washington, D.C., and federal patrol agents appeared outside an ICE facility near Chicago on Oct. 21, 2025.
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What to know about efforts to block National Guard deployments in Chicago, Portland, other US cities
President Donald Trump’s attempts to deploy the military in Democratic-led cities _ over the objections of mayors and governors _ has brought a head-spinning array of court challenges and overlapping rulings.
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by Andrea Katz, Washington University in St. Louis, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] If you’re confused about what the law does and doesn’t allow the president to do with the National Guard, that’s understandable. As National Guard troops landed in Portland, Oregon, in late September 2025, the state’s lawyers argued that the deployment was a “direct intrusion on its sovereign police power.” Days befo…
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