By John Fritze, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump on Friday urged the Supreme Court to allow him to deploy the National Guard in Chicago, putting the explosive legal fight over his ability to use those troops on American soil before the justices for the first time.

The filing sets up a showdown over presidential power at a moment when the administration is attempting to deploy the National Guard to multiple US cities.

The emergency appeal follows a series of decisions from lower federal courts, temporarily blocking the administration’s efforts on the grounds that Trump vastly overstated the need for deploying the National Guard. On Thursday, the Chicago-based 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals let stand an order temporarily blocking that effort.

Trump filed the appeal at the Supreme Cour

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