After an appeals court again blocked the government's attempt to deploy the National Guard in the Chicago area, Vice President JD Vance says the Trump administration will "litigate this as much as we can."
His comments came one day after a federal appeals court in Illinois ruled that the Trump administration can keep federalized National Guard members in the state of Illinois but cannot deploy them for now.
"We're obviously going to litigate this as much as we can," Vance said on ABC's This Week Sunday. "We think that we have the authority to provide proper safety to our citizens all over the United States, but particularly in Chicago."
The ruling Saturday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is the latest development in the administration's ongoing push to