An Illinois-based federal judge has ruled, for now, that the Trump administration cannot deploy the National Guard to Chicago, saying that the administration’s “perceptions of events are simply unreliable.”

Judge April M. Perry issued her decision on Thursday evening , stating that the administration, “their officers, agents, assigns entered, and all persons acting in concert with them, are temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois.”

The order expires in two weeks, but can be extended beyond that time if the city and the state — which jointly sued the White House to block the deployment of troops — can demonstrate a need to keep it going longer.

The White House indicated that it would likely appeal th

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