The City is trying to help block the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago before it even arrives in San Francisco.

Along with more than 40 other local governments, San Francisco urged the Supreme Court in a friend-of-the-court brief filed Monday to block President Donald Trump’s effort to deploy more than 300 National Guard troops in Chicago over the objections of state and local leaders.

The threat of a similar deployment in San Francisco is real and explicit. Trump told Fox News in an interview released Sunday that he has “unquestioned power” to deploy troops in San Francisco. If he does, San Francisco would be the sixth city in which Trump has deployed federal troops or attempted to deploy them.

“We’re gonna go to San Francisco,” Trump said. “The difference is I think the

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