The Trump administration has asked a federal appellate court in Chicago for an emergency stay of a district judge’s order barring the president from deploying National Guard troops in the city and state.

In a filing to the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday night, the Department of Justice said U.S. District Court April Perry’s temporary restraining order a day earlier “improperly impinges on the Commander in Chief’s supervision of military operations, countermands a military directive to officers in the field, and endangers federal personnel and property.”

The 20-page motion asked the higher court to freeze Perry’s order while an appeal is pending, saying the National Guard should be allowed to “protect federal personnel and property” while the litigation continues to play out.

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