President Donald Trump and his administration just asked the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court to give him the okay to send National Guard troops to Chicago, Illinois. 

This comes, according to the Daily Caller, after Trump was blocked from doing so by a lower court judge.

The Supreme Court is now the Trump administration's court of last resort.

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump has officially appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an activist judge’s block on him deploying National Guard to Chicago

FINALLY!

SCOTUS must reaffirm that President Trump is Commander-in-Chief. NOT some random judge. pic.twitter.com/3zoeiD6AVh

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 17, 2025

Background

ABC 7 provides the background of this situation.

Per the outlet:

The emergency appeal to the high court came after a judge prevented, for at least two weeks, the deployment of Guard members from Illinois and Texas to assist immigration enforcement. A federal appeals court refused to put the judge's order on hold.

Trump, under the lower court order, is prevented from sending the National Guard to Chicago until at least next Friday.

ABC continues:

In the dispute over the Guard, U.S. District Judge April Perry said she found no substantial evidence that a "danger of rebellion" is brewing in Illinois during Trump's immigration crackdown. The Guard is restricted until at least next Friday.

The Trump administration obviously disagrees with this ruling, and it is hoping to get it overturned sooner rather than later.

Trump files emergency appeal

The appeal was filed with the Supreme Court by Solicitor General John Sauer.

Sauer, in the application, argued that letting the lower court's decision stand would "immediately increase the risk that federal personnel in Chicago may be seriously harmed by violent anti-ICE agitator."

He wrote:

[The ruling] deprives DHS officers of the protections that the President sought to give them from ongoing violence, prevents the Guard from ensuring the enforcement of federal law, and puts lives and property in danger. It also places the Seventh Circuit in the untenable position of controlling the military chain of command and judicially micromanaging the exercise of the President’s Commander-in-Chief powers, including the decision about which military forces the President can deploy.”

At the time of this writing, the justices of the Supreme Court have yet to respond to Trump's appeal.

The court does have a 6-3 majority of justices appointed by Republican presidents. But, as we have seen, this does not necessarily mean that the court will rule in Trump's favor.