CHICAGO — State and city attorneys urged the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to block the Trump administration’s “dramatic step” to send the National Guard to Chicago over the objection of local officials.

The 46-page response is the first since the Trump administration appealed a judge’s temporary restraining order on the deployment to the nation’s higher court last week, setting the stage for a potential watershed ruling on the reaches of presidential power.

Hundreds of National Guard troops remain at a base in the suburbs after Trump attempted to send them here to protect an ICE processing facility in Broadview that has routinely drawn protesters.

“As the district court found, state and local law enforcement officers have handled isolated protest activities in Illinois, and there is no cre

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