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.
Chicago puts up a fight against Trump, deployment of National Guard troops
National Guard troops from Illinois and Texas have been tasked with protecting federal government employees such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and federal property.
“We’re obviously going to litigate this as much as we can,” Vance said on ABC’s This Week Sunday. “We think that we