The administration of US President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to suspend a lower court ruling that temporarily blocked the deployment of National Guard troops in Chicago and the surrounding areas.

The erupting legal fight over President Donald Trump’s authority to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities landed at the Supreme Court on Friday.

The Trump administration says lower courts are interfering with the president's attempt to protect federal officers tasked with enforcing immigration law.

The Trump administration filed an emergency petition to the Supreme Court on Friday asking it to lift a lower court’s order blocking the deployment of the National Guard to Chicago. Solicitor General D.