A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying National Guard units in Chicago, ruling that the version of events used to justify their deployment was “simply unreliable,” according to the New York Times .

A lawyer for the Trump administration argued in a hearing late Thursday that troops were needed in Chicago to protect federal agents and government property from protesters. The judge, April M. Perry, said the presence of the National Guard would “only add fuel to the fire.”

Perry, who implemented a 14-day restraining order against the presence of the National Guard in Chicago, did not specify the details of it but said she had “seen no credible evidence that there is a danger of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.”

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