A US appeals court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s administration request to lift a lower court’s prohibition on deploying the National Guard in Chicago. President Trump ordered hundreds of National Guard troops to Chicago, asserting they were necessary to combat crime and safeguard immigration agents and facilities in America’s third-largest city, AP image reported. The three-judge panel determined that the administration had failed to demonstrate that conditions in the Illinois city warranted the troop deployment. "Even after affording great deference to the president's evaluation of the circumstances, we see insufficient evidence of a rebellion or danger of rebellion in Illinois," the court stated. "The spirited, sustained, and occasionally violent actions of demons
US appeals court blocks Trump request to send National Guard to Chicago amid immigration protests

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