The judge said she needed time to go through the government’s response to the suit and scheduled a hearing for Thursday, and she declined to sign the state’s temporary restraining order in the meantime.

The suit alleges the administration’s efforts to send the National Guard into the state are illegal and unconstitutional.

“The American people, regardless of where they reside, should not live under the threat of occupation by the United States military, particularly not simply because their city or state leadership has fallen out of a president’s favor,” the Illinois attorney general’s office wrote in the filing, which names President Donald Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll as defendants.

“The Trump administration’s illegal actions already have subjected and are subjecting Illinois to serious and irreparable harm,” the suit says.

The White House maintained Trump’s actions are lawful.