* The Tribune…

A federal judge in Chicago on Wednesday said she will not wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in before deciding how to proceed on her restraining order barring President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Illinois.

At a status hearing before U.S. District Judge April Perry, both sides said they had agreed to at least a 30-day extension of Perry’s order. But they disagreed on how to proceed while the Supreme Court decides whether to grant a stay, with lawyers for the government saying they’d prefer to wait before beginning the process of sharing discovery.

* Sun-Times federal court reporter Jon Seidel…

* Back to the Tribune…

“(The Supreme Court) could very well rule today, they could also wait a week,” Perry told the parties in the telephone hearing.

“The problem with waiting is, every day we wait for them, you are losing time” to prepare for a trial, Perry said. “So we will not wait. If they rule today, we may have to reset the schedule tomorrow.”

Despite the time crunch, Perry said it was important to get it right given the issues at stake.

* Jason Meisner…

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* MSNBC | SCOTUS set to rule on National Guard deployment in Chicago with nationwide implications: The Supreme Court can decide any moment now whether to approve the Trump administration’s deployment of the National Guard in Chicago. The impending decision carries implications for deployments nationwide — as litigation unfolds in California and Oregon — posing one of the most consequential tests for the justices in President Donald Trump’s second term, one in which the Republican-appointed majority has broadly empowered the president.

* Crain’s | Trump administration slams Illinois, says National Guard power is solely president’s: The Trump administration today fired back at Illinois and Chicago in a U.S. Supreme Court reply brief, calling one of their key arguments “outlandish” and saying the question of whether to call up the National Guard is “committed exclusively to the president’s discretion.” The reply comes one day after Illinois and Chicago urged the court not to lift an order blocking the deployment of Guard troops in the city or suburbs and arguing that state and local police have been able to handle “isolated” protests.

* Capitol News Illinois | Trump agrees to extend judge’s block on deploying National Guard as Supreme Court weighs case: Lawyers for the state of Illinois shot back in its own filing Monday, citing two U.S. Supreme Court decisions from the last century, including one “invalidating presidential seizure of steel mills during the Korean War.” “Furthermore, ‘federal courts are fully empowered to consider’ claims ‘resulting from military intrusion into the civilian sector,’” lawyers in Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office wrote, citing a 1972 decision. “There are numerous indications that the questions presented here … fall within this duty.”