DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in federal court Thursday over the President’s deployment of National Guard troops in the District. Trump’s takeover, Schwalb says in a press release, amounts to an “involuntary military occupation that far exceeds the President’s authority over the National Guard.”

The suit argues that the deployment “to police District streets without the Mayor’s consent violates both the Home Rule Act and a congressionally approved compact governing the interstate mobilization of state National Guard troops.” It follows a ruling in California that found Trump’s deployment of troops in LA earlier this year was illegal, with the judge saying Trump appears to want to create “a national police force with the President as i

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