Overview
- An appeals panel on Thursday upheld a lower court order blocking the Illinois deployment, saying there is no sufficient evidence of a rebellion or the danger of one.
- The administration filed an emergency application Friday asking the Supreme Court to lift the injunction, arguing federal personnel and property in Chicago face ongoing threats.
- Roughly 500 Guard members from Texas and Illinois are staged at a federal site near Chicago and have appeared at an ICE facility in Broadview, but they are not authorized to patrol.
- Organizers expected large nationwide "No Kings" protests on Saturday, with more than 2,600 events planned in response to the deployments and other executive actions.
- In a separate development, U.S. forces struck a suspected drug-smuggling submersible in the Caribbean; two survivors were reportedly rescued to a U.S. warship, intensifying legal and diplomatic scrutiny involving Venezuela.