(WASHINGTON) The Trump administration filed an emergency stay request Friday with the Supreme Court to undo a lower court order blocking the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago.

“This Court should stay the district court’s October 9 injunction in its entirety,” the filing, written by Solicitor General John Sauer, said.

Sauer argued the injunction “impinges on the President’s authority and needlessly endangers federal personnel and property.”

He said the Supreme Court should weigh in now “so that the National Guard may perform its protective function while any further litigation is ongoing. Given the pressing risk of violence, this Court should also grant an immediate administrative stay pending consideration of the present application.”

On Thursday, a three-judge panel on the 7

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