A federal judge in Chicago on Wednesday said she will not wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in before deciding how to proceed on her restraining order barring President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Illinois.
At a status hearing before U.S. District Judge April Perry, both sides said they had agreed to at least a 30-day extension of Perry’s order. But they disagreed on how to proceed while the Supreme Court decides whether to grant a stay, with lawyers for the government saying they’d prefer to wait before beginning the process of sharing discovery.
Department of Justice attorney Jody Lowenstein also noted the same legal team defending this case has a trial over similar issues starting in Oregon next week.
Christopher Wells, meanwhile, an attorney for the I