A federal judge in Chicago on Wednesday indefinitely extended her restraining order barring President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Illinois as both sides await a U.S.

President Trump’s push to send the military into Democratic-run cities despite fierce resistance from mayors and governors has unleashed a whirlwind of lawsuits and overlapping court rulings.

Lawyers for the city of Chicago have asked the Supreme Court to uphold a court order barring the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard into the city.

A federal judge has agreed to indefinitely extend a temporary restraining order blocking deployment of the National Guard in the Chicago area, pending a final ruling on the matter.

The Trump administration has agreed to extend a federal judge's temporary block on deploying National Guard troops to Chicago while the U.S. Supreme Court weighs whether to stay the judge's order.

A federal judge in Chicago who had already blocked deployment of National Guard troops to the Chicago area for two weeks agreed to extend that order.

In a suit filed in federal court, attorneys for Sam O’Hara, 35, of Washington, said he would regularly protest the National Guard’s presence by walking several feet behind them and playing the march also known as "Darth Vader's Theme," from "The Empire Strikes Back," the second film in the "Star Wars" series, when he saw them in the community.

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