ON PATROL — U.S. soldiers with the West Virginia National Guard conduct a routine patrol at the Stadium-Armory Metro Station in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 8. -- Photo Courtesy/WV National Guard

CHARLESTON — As he prepares to defend the deployment of the West Virginia National Guard in the nation’s capital in a Kanawha County courtroom, Attorney General J.B. McCuskey joined with other states in defending President Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard in Washington, D.C.

In a friend-of-the-court brief filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, West Virginia and South Carolina led 21 other states in defending Trump’s use of National Guard for law enforcement activities in Washington.

The states argue that crime in Washington is a serious threat to the effe

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