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Supreme Court Deals Major Setback to Trump's National Guard Deployment in Chicago

Published December 23, 2025

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A grotesque, over-the-top trading card mocking the Supreme Court's rare rebuke of President Trump's attempt to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, portraying the doomed deployment as a cartoonish bureaucratic fiasco.

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The U.S. Supreme Court on December 23, 2025, refused the Trump administration’s request to allow the deployment of National Guard troops to the Chicago area to back up federal immigration enforcement, effectively upholding a lower court’s order blocking the mobilization. The ruling marks a rare judicial setback for President Trump, with the majority saying the government failed to demonstrate legal authority for such a deployment under federal law. While dissenting justices voiced disagreement, the decision could impact similar efforts in other cities. Illinois officials hailed the fit as a defense of state authority and civil liberties.

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