Judge Won't Quickly Block Trump Troop Deployment to Illinois

[lostincalifornia]

"A federal judge declined to quickly issue a temporary order blocking the Trump administration’s plan to deploy National Guard members to Chicago to counter protests against the US immigration crackdown, while urging the government to delay the controversial plan until she rules.

US District Judge April Perry on Monday said she could not rule immediately on a request by Illinois for a two-week halt to the deployment, which would include National Guard troops under federal control from Illinois and Texas. She set a Thursday hearing for arguments.

Perry, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, said she was “troubled” by the administration’s lack of clarity about where the troops would be mobilizing and what they would be doing. But the judge said that before she makes a decision, she needed to give the US government time to review demands made by Illinois and the City of Chicago in the lawsuit they filed earlier in the day.

“In the meantime, we’ll wait,” Perry said. “If I were the government, I would strongly consider taking a pause on this until Thursday, so we are not in a position where we’re doing a full-fledged hearing with whatever has happened.”

How naive are some of these judges.