The Trump administration's push to lift a lower court's order barring the deployment of the National Guard to Chicago relies on "mischaracterizations" of the facts on the ground, lawyers for the city of Chicago and state of Illinois wrote in a brief to the Supreme Court on Monday. They urged the high court to keep in place the current order that allows the Trump administration to federalize the Illinois National Guard but prohibits them from deploying into Chicago. "Applicants' contrary arguments rest on mischaracterizations of the factual record or the lower courts' views of the legal principles. As the district court found, state and local law enforcement officers have handled isolated protest activities in Illinois, and there is no credible evidence to the contrary," they argued. With t

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