The city is challenging the federal government’s authority to send troops into the city for what the president has called a “public safety emergency.”
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The city is challenging the federal government’s authority to send troops into the city for what the president has called a “public safety emergency.”
By Campbell Robertson
President Donald Trump last month put the D.C. police department under federal control and deployed hundreds of National Guard…
The city's attorney general, Brian Schwalb, said the hundreds of troops are essentially an “involuntary military occupation.”
The DC government sued the Trump administration to stop the president's deployment of 2,200 National Guard troops in the capital.
The city's attorney general, Brian Schwalb, said the hundreds of troops are essentially an “involuntary military occupation.”
Trump has deployed hundreds of troops, some armed, as part of a crackdown on crime and homelessness in the US capital.
The District of Columbia has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump for bringing in National Guard soldiers to police its…
DC sues Trump administration to halt National Guard deployment
