Supreme Court wants more time and information before deciding if Trump can send National Guard to Chicago

The Supreme Court on Wednesday took the rare step of asking for additional briefing in a high-profile, emergency case challenging President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago, questioning whether those troops can be used under the federal law at issue to augment immigration officials.

A federal court earlier this month blocked the deployment, and in a signal that the Supreme Court isn’t in a hurry to rule, the justices indicated they won’t decide the case until at least November 17.

The new question may be a bad sign for Trump, whose lawyers argued that under an 1827 precedent, courts don’t have jurisdiction to review a president’s decision to call up the guard. Instead, the justices appear to be debating one of the administration’s more nuanced justifications for the deployment.

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