National Guard Deployment
4 proceedings tracked · Active
President Trump's deployment of federalized National Guard troops to Chicago, Los Angeles, and other cities to assist with immigration enforcement operations generated suits from state governors and mayors asserting that the Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act bar the use of military forces for domestic law enforcement without a proper legal predicate. Illinois and California challenged the deployments as unconstitutional federal commandeering of state National Guard units outside any declared insurrection or invasion.
National Guard Deployment
Case No. 1:25-cv-03005
N.D. Ill. Chicago deployment challenge by Illinois state officials, asserting the federalization and domestic deployment of the Illinois National Guard violates the Posse Comitatus Act and Tenth Amendment.
National Guard Deployment
Case No. 3:25-cv-01756
C.D. Cal. Los Angeles deployment challenge by California officials contesting the legal predicate for federalizing the California National Guard for immigration enforcement operations.
National Guard Deployment
Case No. 1:25-cv-12173
N.D. Ill. companion proceeding to the Chicago deployment challenge that reached a decided disposition establishing the Seventh Circuit's framework for Insurrection Act deployment claims.
National Guard Deployment
Case No. 1:25-cv-12174
Second N.D. Ill. National Guard deployment proceeding reaching a decided disposition, addressing the threshold standing of municipal governments to challenge federal military deployments within their borders.