Crime rates in Memphis aren't dire enough to warrant calling in the National Guard, a judge says. Photo: AP PHOTO

A Tennessee state court judge has temporarily blocked Republican Governor Bill Lee's deployment of National Guard troops to the city of Memphis, ruling the use of troops was likely not legal under the state's militia law.

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Chancellor Patricia Head Moskal of the Davidson County Chancery Court in Nashville said the militia law required Tennessee's General Assembly to call in the National Guard for public safety.

She ruled on Monday that crime rates in Memphis were not a "g

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