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, whereby 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.
The lawsuit also claims that using the National Guard from other states in the nation’s capital is a violation of the Constitution and federal law….
DC Sues Trump Admin Seeking to Stop National Guard Deployment
