President Donald Trump's National Guard deployments to Portland and Chicago will be tested in court Thursday, Oct. 9, as state leaders push back against what they've described as an illegal and unwarranted militarization of their cities.
In Illinois, a judge is expected to decide whether to block hundreds of guardsmen from deploying into the nation’s third-largest city. In California, a federal appeals court will weigh a lower court's order preventing the deployment of National Guard troops to Portland.
The hearings are set to start at noon ET in both San Francisco and Chicago.
The legal battles come as National Guard troops began patrolling an immigration facility in Broadview, Illinois, a village about 12 miles west of downtown Chicago. The facility has been the site of protests against aggressive ICE raids in the city, with occasional clashes erupting between federal agents and demonstrators.
On Wednesday, Oct. 8, hundreds of people marched through downtown Chicago to protest the president's mobilization of 500 soldiers to the city, including 200 from Texas.
