Pushing back on President Trump’s claim that “I have the right to do anything I want to do,” the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to lift a lower court order preventing the President from deploying National Guard troops against civilians in Chicago, allowing the block on the deployment to remain in place.

In urging the Supreme Court to rein in the President’s attempts to establish a de facto standing army, a coalition of civil liberties organizations—including The Rutherford Institute, the ACLU, ACLU of Illinois, the Knight First Amendment Institute, and FIRE—argued in Trump v. Illinois that American law and tradition strictly limit the use of the military in domestic affairs. The coalition emphasized that the Posse Comitatus Act forbids federal troops from engaging in civilian law enforcement except in the most extraordinary........

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