Not long after losing his bid to deploy the U.S. military in Illinois at the U.S. Circuit Court level, President Donald Trump asked for help from the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). But he’s already running into difficulty in the form of one of his own appointed justices.
Politico legal correspondent Josh Gerstein reported Friday that while the Court has agreed to hear Trump’s case and has given the State of Illinois a deadline of 5 PM on Monday to respond to Trump, there’s a catch: According to Gerstein, Justice Amy Coney Barrett declined Trump’s request of an administrative stay of a lower court order preventing him from deploying troops in Illinois borders.
In legal parlance, a higher court can “stay” a lower court’s order — meaning pause it while litigation plays out — if a complainant asks for one. However, the 6-3 conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court not granting Trump his stay means that his administration will be unable to have federal troops patrolling the streets of America’s third-largest city.
https://www.alternet.org/trump-supreme-court-justice-2674210358
