Drummond leads coalitions supporting President Trump’s activation of National Guard

OKLAHOMA CITY (Oct. 10, 2025) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond is leading two multi-state coalitions of attorneys general to support President Trump’s activation of the National Guard in Chicago and Portland. 

In amicus briefs filed this week, Drummond and more than a dozen other state attorneys general asked the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to deny the State of Illinois’ motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction and asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to grant President Trump’s motion to stay the order blocking troops from deployment.

“President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Illinois and Oregon is not only constitutional, but these are necessary measures to enforce the law and protect the public,” Drummond said. “We must put a stop to the increased violence against federal immigration officials.”

In the briefs, Drummond and the coalitions note that illegal open-border immigration policies flooded the country with illegal immigrants during the past four years. 

“Now, President Trump is executing Congress’ dictates and enforcing federal immigration law,” the attorneys general wrote. “Against that backdrop of law enforcement, activists began to gather in cities across the United States. But rather than protest peacefully, some of those protests became violent, threatening federal officers, harming federal property, and certainly impeding enforcement of federal law. President Trump’s deployment of a small number of National Guard members to defend against this lawlessness is responsible, constitutional, and authorized by statute.” 

Drummond’s leadership on the matter is in sharp contrast to Gov. Kevin Stitt, who yesterday criticized Texas Gov. Greg  Abbott for sending National Guard troops to Illinois in support of President Trump’s decision to deploy federal resources there.

“This is not the time to assail the sensible and constitutional deployment of the National Guard to ensure the safety of immigration officials,” he said. “Gov. Stitt’s carping to The New York Times was wholly inappropriate, if not surprising.”

Also leading the amicus briefs with Oklahoma are Iowa, Montana and South Carolina. 

Also joining the Illinois brief are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Texas and West Virginia. 

Those joining the Ninth Circuit brief are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas and West Virginia. 

Read the Illinois brief and the Ninth Circuit brief.