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NextImg:BREAKING: D.C. sues Trump over National Guard demployment – The Right Scoop

Despite the massive success of President Trump’s surge of both law enforcement and National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. to fight the crime epidemic, the city attorney general isn’t happy about it and is suing to end it.

Here’s the news via CBS News:

The attorney general for the District of Columbia announced Thursday that the nation’s capital is suing the Trump administration over the deployment of National Guard troops within the city’s boundaries, alleging the violation amounts to an unconstitutional, “involuntary military occupation.”

The suit alleges that President Trump “has run roughshod over a fundamental tenet of American democracy — that the military should not be involved in domestic law enforcement.”

The lawsuit comes as President Trump has declared the use of national guard troops in DC a success, and voiced an interest in expanding his use of military assets to tackle crime in some of the nation’s largest cities, including Chicago, Baltimore and New Orleans.

“Deploying the National Guard to engage in law enforcement is not only unnecessary and unwanted, but it is also dangerous and harmful to the District and its residents,” said D.C. Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb in a statement sent to CBS News.

“No American city should have the US military — particularly out-of-state military who are not accountable to the residents and untrained in local law enforcement — policing its streets,” Schwalb said. “It’s DC today but could be any other city tomorrow.”

The case, filed in federal court, echoes some aspects of the California legal challenge, arguing that law enforcement is not legally the domain of the military. It also argues that the D.C. National Guard troops deployed in the action fall under the command of city officials unless the president declares a genuine national emergency.

Because D.C. is a federal city, he’ll end up losing this legal battle. Other cities would likely lose too, but at least they have more standing as a state city to sue.