The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to give “extraordinary deference” to the president in his decision to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, as he seeks to get the justices to lift a block imposed by lower courts on the deployment.

The Justice Department and Illinois officials filed additional briefs to the Supreme Court late Monday on the question of whether “regular forces,” in the language of the law President Donald Trump invoked in his bid to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, includes the military. The law Trump cited, 10 U.S. Code §12406, allows the president to federalize and deploy National Guard troops when the “President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States,” among other provisions.

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