Arielle

Yeah, Arielle, this is a significant loss for the Trump administration.

The court had been weighing this bid since October.

This is one of those cases that came through the emergency docket.

The Trump administration had asked to allow the deployment and the federalization of the National Guard

in illinois now they've been sitting on it for a while which caused us to speculate maybe they were waiting to see whether this happened in another city and maybe there was a circuit split but now they've decisively ruled against the trump administration saying that he cannot deploy or federalize the national guard in illinois and i want to read very briefly from this ruling they say that the government has not carried its burden to show that the statute permits the president to federalize the guard in the exercise of inherent authority to protect the federal personnel and property in illinois

We need not add and do not address the reviewability of findings made by the president under the statute or any other statute.

The application is denied.

This, I want to say, also appears to be 6-3, as with regular emergency docket applications.

You don't have to get that breakdown of how the justices voted.

We know that Gorsuch, Thomas and Alito all wrote dissenting opinions.

So it appears that it's 6-3.

It appears that Barrett and Roberts sided with the liberal justices here.

But again, this is a massive blow for the Trump administration.

Yeah, the Supreme Court has now set this precedent here that the Trump administration cannot federalize or deploy the National Guard under this specific statute.

So this is a decisive victory or decisive loss for the Trump administration.