Overview
- The Supreme Court requested additional briefing and said it will not rule before at least November 17, leaving in place a lower-court order blocking Guard deployments around Chicago.
- The Seventh Circuit stayed U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis’s requirement that Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino appear daily to report on enforcement tactics in Chicago.
- Ellis imposed oversight after reports of aggressive measures during Operation Midway Blitz, which has tallied more than 1,800 arrests and drawn complaints of excessive force.
- In the Portland case, the Ninth Circuit granted en banc rehearing of a panel ruling that had allowed federalization of Oregon Guard troops.
- The Justice Department acknowledged it overstated Federal Protective Service staffing in Portland—revising a cited total of 115 agents to 86, with 65 inspectors—while a separate district court order there still bars any Guard deployment.