A federal judge quizzed a Trump administration attorney Thursday on the role National Guard troops would play if deployed in Chicago to assist ICE agents with immigration enforcement, at one point questioning "where is the rebellion?"

U.S. District Judge April Perry was hearing arguments in a packed downtown Chicago courtroom from attorneys for the state of Illinois and the Justice Department.

Perry pressed Justice Department lawyer Eric Hamilton on whether National Guard troops would only be stationed around federal buildings or also in neighborhoods, schools and hospitals. Hamilton responded that troops also could be used to “protect ICE agents” in the field.

Perry called the Trump administration's claims of a so-called rebellion "audacious" and questioned the information being us

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