National Guard troops have been assisting law enforcement in the District of Columbia since Trump mobilized them on Aug. 11.
WASHINGTON—The District of Columbia sued the Trump administration on Sept. 4 over its deployment of the National Guard to the nation’s capital.
The lawsuit alleges that the deployment violates the district’s semi-sovereign status known as Home Rule, where the city has jurisdiction over its own affairs but Congress can override its decisions.
“In so doing, he has run roughshod over a fundamental tenet of American democracy—that the military should not be involved in domestic law enforcement,” the lawsuit states, referring to President Donald Trump.
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