Politics
Trump Attorneys Agree to 30-Day Extension of Order Barring National Guard Deployment in Chicago But Anticipate Supreme Court Acting ‘Very Soon’
Military personnel in uniform, with the Texas National Guard patch on, are seen at the U.S. Army Reserve Center, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025, in Elwood, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. (AP Photo / Erin Hooley)
The Trump administration has consented to a monthlong extension to an order barring the deployment of National Guard troops into Illinois as it continues appealing that order to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In a status report filed in federal court Tuesday, attorneys for the Trump administration said they agreed to extend an existing temporary restraining order that’s preventing the deployment of hundreds of troops into Chicago and Illinois by an additional 30 days.
They did so, according to the report, in order to “facilitate the Supreme Court’s review of defendants’ stay application” after the Trump administration appealed to the high court in an effort to overturn the restraining order.
That order — sought by Chicago and Illinois leaders who sued the Trump administration — was first issued by U.S. District Judge April Perry earlier this month and was set to last 14 days. With a 30-day extension, that order would instead be in place through Nov. 24.
Perry hasn’t yet ordered the extension and is scheduled to preside over a hearing in that case Wednesday morning.
In agreeing to the extension, attorneys for the Trump administration suggested waiting on the Supreme Court to rule — something they believe “can be expected very soon” — before determining the next steps for proceedings in this case.
The conservative-dominated Supreme Court has handed Trump repeated victories in emergency appeals since he took office in January, after lower courts have ruled against him and often over the objection of the three liberal justices.
The court has allowed Trump to ban transgender people from the military, claw back billions of dollars of congressionally approved federal spending, move aggressively against immigrants and fire the presidentially appointed leaders of independent federal agencies.
In their appeal, attorneys for the Trump administration argued the president’s decision to federalize National Guards troops is “unreviewable.” They also claimed the Department of Homeland Security and other federal law enforcement agencies have been forced to operate “under the constant threat of mob violence” in and around Chicago amid their escalated immigration enforcement efforts across the state.
But in granting the restraining order, Perry said she found federal officials’ assertions that federal agents had been subjected to serious and coordinated violence by protestors “unreliable.”
Attorneys for the state of Illinois called on the Supreme Court to deny the administration’s “dramatic step of permitting deployment of National Guard troops over Illinois’s objection,” claiming the Trump administration “cannot show that such extraordinary relief is warranted.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
