Donald Trump’s government is going to court in the dispute over the National Guard

Immediately before major demonstrations against Donald Trump were announced, the US government went to the Supreme Court to enforce the deployment of the National Guard to Chicago ordered by the President and stopped by the judiciary. Currently, federal officers in Chicago are “forced to perform their duties under the constant threat of mob violence,” said government attorney John Sauer’s brief filed Friday with the Supreme Court.

Stopping the deployment of National Guard troops by a federal court “improperly interferes with the President’s authority and unnecessarily endangers federal personnel and property.”

Trump has ordered the National Guard to several US cities governed by opposition Democrats, including Chicago. The city sued and won in federal court and then on Thursday in an appeals court. Trump is now taking action against this in the Supreme Court, which is dominated by conservative judges who are sympathetic to him. It is the first time that the US government has gone to the Supreme Court on the issue of deploying the National Guard.

The three-judge appeals court said on Thursday that the government in Washington had not proven that the conditions in Chicago, Illinois, justified the deployment of soldiers. “Even if we give great respect to the president’s assessment of the circumstances, we do not see sufficient evidence of rebellion or threat of rebellion in Illinois.”

It continued: “The clear, sustained and occasionally violent actions of demonstrators in protest of the federal government’s immigration policies and actions do not automatically pose a threat of rebellion against the government’s authority.”

Millions of people across the United States were expected to protest against the Trump administration on Saturday under the slogan “No Kings.” The organizers of the more than 2,600 demonstrations expect record participation. Among other things, the deployment of the National Guard had recently caused outrage.

Protests should take place in New York, San Francisco, Washington, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, New Orleans and many smaller cities. On June 14, hundreds of thousands of people came together in several cities under the slogan “No Kings” to demonstrate against Trump. The occasion was a military parade to mark the 250th anniversary of the US Army in Washington, which Trump had requested and which coincided with his 79th birthday.