A panel of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously Thursday to uphold the district court’s block on the National Guard’s deployment to Chicago.
The Trump administration, the argument goes, is routinely harming its own cause. Her boasting of her deportation successes in Chicago undermined the Guard’s supposed need to support other federal law enforcement, and her call for the Texas Guard to invade Chicago – “an incursion into Illinois sovereignty” – helped Chicago prove its prejudice.
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“Political opposition is not rebellion,” the opinion states. “A protest does not become a rebellion simply because protesters advocate myriad legal or policy changes, are well organized, call for significant changes in the structure of the U.S. government, use civil disobedience as a form of protest, or exercise their Second Amendment right to bear firearms as currently permitted by law. Nor does a protest become a rebellion simply because of incidents sporadic and isolated from illegal activities or even violence committed by rogue participants. in protest.
The Trump administration, the argument goes, is routinely harming its own cause. Her boasting of her deportation successes in Chicago undermined the Guard’s supposed need to support other federal law enforcement, and her call for the Texas Guard to invade Chicago – “an incursion into Illinois sovereignty” – helped Chicago prove its prejudice.
This case is likely destined for the Supreme Court.
Read the review here:
Justices have made once-mundane, now profound pronouncements about the legitimacy of political protest, while Republican leaders routinely label peaceful protesters “terrorists.”
“Political opposition is not rebellion,” the opinion states. “A protest does not become a rebellion simply because protesters advocate myriad legal or policy changes, are well organized, call for significant changes in the structure of the U.S. government, use civil disobedience as a form of protest, or exercise their Second Amendment right to bear firearms as currently permitted by law. Nor does a protest become a rebellion simply because of incidents sporadic and isolated from illegal activities or even violence committed by rogue participants. in protest.
The Trump administration, the argument goes, is routinely harming its own cause. Her boasting of her deportation successes in Chicago undermined the Guard’s supposed need to support other federal law enforcement, and her call for the Texas Guard to invade Chicago – “an incursion into Illinois sovereignty” – helped Chicago prove its prejudice.
This case is likely destined for the Supreme Court.
Read the review here:
In their opinion Thursday, the justices were much more sympathetic to the district court than their counterparts on the 9th Circuit, who are considering the administration’s appeal of an order blocking Guard deployments in Portland. Calling U.S. District Court Judge April Perry’s opinion “thorough,” the 7th Circuit panel also upheld her decision to give Chicago’s field reports more weight than the administration’s because the latter “omitted important information or were undermined by independent and objective evidence.”
Justices have made once-mundane, now profound pronouncements about the legitimacy of political protest, while Republican leaders routinely label peaceful protesters “terrorists.”
“Political opposition is not rebellion,” the opinion states. “A protest does not become a rebellion simply because protesters advocate myriad legal or policy changes, are well organized, call for significant changes in the structure of the U.S. government, use civil disobedience as a form of protest, or exercise their Second Amendment right to bear firearms as currently permitted by law. Nor does a protest become a rebellion simply because of incidents sporadic and isolated from illegal activities or even violence committed by rogue participants. in protest.
The Trump administration, the argument goes, is routinely harming its own cause. Her boasting of her deportation successes in Chicago undermined the Guard’s supposed need to support other federal law enforcement, and her call for the Texas Guard to invade Chicago – “an incursion into Illinois sovereignty” – helped Chicago prove its prejudice.
This case is likely destined for the Supreme Court.
Read the review here:
The panel previously issued an administrative stay, allowing Guard members in Illinois to remain under federal control but blocking their deployment.
In their opinion Thursday, the justices were much more sympathetic to the district court than their counterparts on the 9th Circuit, who are considering the administration’s appeal of an order blocking Guard deployments in Portland. Calling U.S. District Court Judge April Perry’s opinion “thorough,” the 7th Circuit panel also upheld her decision to give Chicago’s field reports more weight than the administration’s because the latter “omitted important information or were undermined by independent and objective evidence.”
Justices have made once-mundane, now profound pronouncements about the legitimacy of political protest, while Republican leaders routinely label peaceful protesters “terrorists.”
“Political opposition is not rebellion,” the opinion states. “A protest does not become a rebellion simply because protesters advocate myriad legal or policy changes, are well organized, call for significant changes in the structure of the U.S. government, use civil disobedience as a form of protest, or exercise their Second Amendment right to bear firearms as currently permitted by law. Nor does a protest become a rebellion simply because of incidents sporadic and isolated from illegal activities or even violence committed by rogue participants. in protest.
The Trump administration, the argument goes, is routinely harming its own cause. Her boasting of her deportation successes in Chicago undermined the Guard’s supposed need to support other federal law enforcement, and her call for the Texas Guard to invade Chicago – “an incursion into Illinois sovereignty” – helped Chicago prove its prejudice.
This case is likely destined for the Supreme Court.
Read the review here:
The panel is made up of one Trump appointee, one Barack Obama appointee and one George HW Bush appointee.
The panel previously issued an administrative stay, allowing Guard members in Illinois to remain under federal control but blocking their deployment.
In their opinion Thursday, the justices were much more sympathetic to the district court than their counterparts on the 9th Circuit, who are considering the administration’s appeal of an order blocking Guard deployments in Portland. Calling U.S. District Court Judge April Perry’s opinion “thorough,” the 7th Circuit panel also upheld her decision to give Chicago’s field reports more weight than the administration’s because the latter “omitted important information or were undermined by independent and objective evidence.”
Justices have made once-mundane, now profound pronouncements about the legitimacy of political protest, while Republican leaders routinely label peaceful protesters “terrorists.”
“Political opposition is not rebellion,” the opinion states. “A protest does not become a rebellion simply because protesters advocate myriad legal or policy changes, are well organized, call for significant changes in the structure of the U.S. government, use civil disobedience as a form of protest, or exercise their Second Amendment right to bear firearms as currently permitted by law. Nor does a protest become a rebellion simply because of incidents sporadic and isolated from illegal activities or even violence committed by rogue participants. in protest.
The Trump administration, the argument goes, is routinely harming its own cause. Her boasting of her deportation successes in Chicago undermined the Guard’s supposed need to support other federal law enforcement, and her call for the Texas Guard to invade Chicago – “an incursion into Illinois sovereignty” – helped Chicago prove its prejudice.
This case is likely destined for the Supreme Court.
