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(169,852 posts) Thu Sep 4, 2025, 11:33 AM Sep 4

D.C. sues Trump administration over 'illegal deployment' of National Guard in Washington

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WASHINGTON — The city of Washington has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and the military over the deployment of the National Guard in the nation’s capital.

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

The suit follows a ruling from a federal judge in California this week who found that the Trump administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act, which bars the use of soldiers for civilian law enforcement activities.

The suit was filed by Washington’s elected attorney general, Brian Schwalb, a Democrat, whose office represents the city of Washington in court and prosecutes some minor crimes as well as crimes committed by juveniles. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, headed by Jeanine Pirro, prosecutes most crimes in the district.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/dc-sues-trump-administration-illegal-deployment-national-guard-rcna228913

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D.C. sues Trump administration over 'illegal deployment' of National Guard in Washington

"None of this is lawful," the suit from D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb says.

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D.C. sues Trump administration over 'illegal deployment' of National Guard in Washington (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Sep 4 OP

Good luck with that! He'll get away with it again. Initech Sep 4 #1

New DC suit over Trump's National Guard deployment to DC is assigned to Judge Jia Cobb, Biden appointee. LetMyPeopleVote Sep 4 #2

Initech

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1. Good luck with that! He'll get away with it again.

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Thu Sep 4, 2025, 11:39 AM

Sep 4

Because that fucking asshole gets away with everything.

LetMyPeopleVote

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2. New DC suit over Trump's National Guard deployment to DC is assigned to Judge Jia Cobb, Biden appointee.

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Thu Sep 4, 2025, 03:10 PM

Sep 4

This is the same judge who is handling the Lisa Cook lawsuit on her supposed removal as a governor from the Federal Reserve

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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/04/washington-dc-national-guard-trump-lawsuit-00544008

D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb sued the Trump administration on Thursday for deploying the National Guard to Washington, saying it infringes on the city’s sovereignty and violates laws prohibiting the use of the military for domestic law enforcement.

“The deployment of National Guard troops to police District streets without the District’s consent infringes on its sovereignty and right to self-governance,” lawyers for D.C. wrote in the lawsuit, which was filed in federal District Court in Washington. “The deployment also risks inflaming tensions and fueling distrust toward local law enforcement. And it inflicts economic injuries, depressing business activities and tourism that form the backbone of the local economy and tax base. No American jurisdiction should be involuntarily subjected to military occupation.”......

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Trump’s troop deployment in California violated laws against using the military for domestic purposes. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, a San Francisco-based appointee of Bill Clinton, found that troops were actively participating in local policing in ways that ran afoul of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which limits the use of the military in enforcing civilian laws.

The case was assigned to U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, a Biden appointee. It’s the second high-profile Trump-related case randomly assigned to Cobb in the past two weeks: Cobb also is also presiding over the lawsuit from Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook, who is contesting Trump’s attempt to fire her.

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