Trump has already sent national guard units to Chicago and Portland, Los Angeles, Memphis, and Washington DC. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images
The Trump administration on Friday asked the US supreme court to permit the deployment of national guard troops to Illinois, as the president pushes to expand the domestic use of the military in a growing number of Democratic-led cities.
In an emergency filing, the justice department urged the court to overturn a lower-court ruling that halted the deployment of several hundred national guard troops to the Chicago area.
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