The attorney general for Washington, D.C., has sued the Trump administration over the deployment of National Guard troops throughout the city amid its crackdown on local crime.

Brian Schwalb, the city’s attorney general, said that by sending hundreds of troops into the nation’s capital, the administration has "run roughshod" over the long-standing tenet that the U.S. military should not be involved in domestic law enforcement.

“None of this is lawful,” he wrote in a lawsuit filed Thursday that asks a judge to block the deployment.

A federal judge in California recently ruled that Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles after immigration protests turned violent in June was unlawful, which the administration has appealed.

However, the president’s command over the Natio

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