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CHICAGO—A federal judge on Oct. 9 temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s deployment of Texas National Guard troops into Chicago.

Judge April Perry, district judge for the Northern District of Illinois, in an oral ruling, granted in part the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois’s emergency application to halt the federal government's sending troops to Chicago. A written order will be issued on Friday.

“I have seen no credible evidence” of a rebellion in the state of Illinois, she said.

On Oct. 6, Illinois and Chicago filed <a href="https://illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/News-Room/Current-News/Illinois%20v.%20Trump%20-%20NG%20suit%20-%2025-12174.pdf?language_id=1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">suit</a> against Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in an attempt to stop the deployment.

“The deployment of federalized National Guard, including from another state, infringes on Illinois’s sovereignty and right to self-governance,” the lawsuit reads.

“It will cause only more unrest, including harming social fabric and community relations and increasing the mistrust of police.”

Christopher Wells of the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, representing the state, said the administration’s talk of a rebellion brewing is “such an audacious claim.”

“[The deployment] is about the president’s animus for this community,” he said.

Wells cited Trump’s Sept. 30 speech—in which he suggested that he might use dangerous cities as training grounds for the military—and alleged that the president might go beyond using the National Guard.

Deputy Assistant Attorney General Eric Hamilton said the “danger of a rebellion” is sufficient to warrant the deployment under 10 U.S.C. 12406.

“Chicago is seeing a brazen new form of hostility from rioters targeting federal law enforcement,” Hamilton told the court.

Judge April Perry, district judge for the Northern District of Illinois, said she was concerned that there were no guardrails on the area of troop activity and that it might extend into other parts of the state.

“Anywhere in the state of Illinois?” she asked Hamilton.

Perry was also concerned about the scope of the National Guard’s activity and asked whether they would engage in crowd control or pursue criminals or vehicles.

Hamilton said he was unsure of those details.

Perry also suggested that protesters are just “getting up to mischief.”

The case follows Trump’s previous deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles to gain control of protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and their operations.

In a statement posted to X late on Oct. 8, the U.S. Northern Command <a href="https://x.com/USNorthernCmd/status/1976090237928604131">stated</a> that guardsmen were “employed in the greater Chicago area,” protecting ICE and other federal components.

The Department of Homeland Security announced a surge of immigration enforcement resources in Chicago at the end of August.

Trump had also been signaling for weeks that he would send troops to the Windy City to quell crime, mirroring similar efforts in the nation's capital earlier this year.

“[Illinois Gov. JB] Pritzker needs help badly, he just doesn’t know it yet,” the president <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115134530741891730">wrote</a> on Truth Social on Sept. 2, after an especially bloody weekend that saw 54 shootings and eight murders in the city.

Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have consistently voiced opposition to federal intervention.

On Aug. 30, Johnson signed an <a href="https://chicityclerk.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public-1/reports/EXECUTIVE%20ORDER%202025-6_0.pdf?VersionId=AcXfAhKkTWUaG9pc80.pAwo5rv4n6CAN">executive order</a> forbidding Chicago Police Department officers from participating in joint operations with federal law enforcement or National Guard troops.

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said on Oct. 2 that ICE officers had been targeted in two separate incidents by illegal immigrants who tried to ram them with cars.

On Oct. 4, she <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/10/04/vehicles-again-used-weapon-attack-against-dhs-law-enforcement-officers-forced-fire" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">announced</a> that 10 cars had boxed in a law enforcement vehicle on patrol in Broadview, a village a few miles outside of Chicago.

After the officers exited the vehicle, one of the cars attempted to ram them. The officers fired defensive shots, wounding a woman armed with a semi-automatic rifle. The woman had been previously identified by Customs and Border Protection for doxxing agents online.

"Unfortunately, JB Pritzker’s Chicago Police Department is leaving the shooting scene and refuses to assist us in securing the area,” McLaughlin said.

On the same day, Hegseth invoked Section 12406 of Title 10 of the United States <a href="https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section12406&num=0&edition=prelim">Code</a>, taking control of up to 300 members of the Illinois National Guard. On Oct. 5, he called up members of the Texas National Guard and sent them to Illinois.

On Oct. 8, a crowd of anti-ICE protesters—estimated at several hundred to more than a thousand—marched through downtown Chicago.

The Oct. 9 developments come after a federal judge on Oct. 4 temporarily <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/ice-faces-ongoing-protests-in-portland-as-judge-blocks-national-guard-deployment-5925383" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">blocked</a> Trump from deploying members of the California National Guard to Portland, Oregon. An ICE facility there has been the staging ground of protests for months.

The judge, a day later, expanded that block to include National Guard from any state; the order expires on Oct. 19.

<em>From <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-judge-partially-blocks-trumps-deployment-of-national-guard-to-chicago-5927097">The Epoch Times</a></em>

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