Appeals court rejects Trump request to deploy National Guard in Chicago area

A federal appeals court on Saturday rejected the Trump administration's request to immediately allow the deployment of National Guard troops to Illinois, leaving in place a lower court's order that blocked the mobilisation temporarily. In a brief order, the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals said the federal government remains barred from deploying troops but that any out-of-state Guard members in Illinois do not need to return to their home states for now. The mobilization had included hundreds of soldiers called up from the Texas National Guard. US District Judge April Perry had issued an order blocking the National Guard deployment on Thursday after expressing scepticism about the administration's assertions that the soldiers were needed to protect federal agents from...