WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to end its monthslong to help police the nation’s capital.

U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb concluded that President Donald Trump’s military takeover in Washington, D.C., violates the Constitution and illegally intrudes on local officials’ authority to direct law enforcement in the district. She put her order on hold for 21 days to allow for an appeal, however.

District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb the Guard deployments. He asked the judge to bar the White House from deploying Guard troops without the mayor’s consent.

Cobb found that the president only has the power to call up the Guard “through the exercise of a specific power outlined in state law,” not for “whatever reason” he sees fit.

In August,

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