(CNN) — President Donald Trump on Friday urged the Supreme Court to allow him to deploy the National Guard in Chicago , putting the explosive legal fight over his ability to use those troops on American soil before the justices for the first time.

The filing sets up a showdown over presidential power at a moment when the administration is attempting to deploy the National Guard to multiple US cities.

The emergency appeal follows a series of decisions from lower federal courts, temporarily blocking the administration’s efforts on the grounds that Trump vastly overstated the need for deploying the National Guard. On Thursday, the Chicago-based 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals let stand an order temporarily blocking that effort.

Trump filed the appeal at the Supreme Court in a case inv

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