President Donald Trump has demanded that the Supreme Court decide whether he can deploy the National Guard in Chicago after two lower courts ruled against him.

On Friday, the 79-year-old president filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court saying that the decisions from Judge April Perry of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, which block his attempt to send the military into Illinois to quell ICE protestors, “improperly impinge on the president’s authority and needlessly endanger federal personnel and property.”

In an attempt to argue that ICE protestors are radically out of control, the emergency appeal argues, “The federal agents’ efforts are met with prolonged, coordinated, violent resistance that threatens their live

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