DC Sues Trump Admin Seeking to Stop National Guard Deployment

WASHINGTON—The District of Columbia sued the Trump administration on Sept. 4 over its deployment of the National Guard to the nation’s capital. The lawsuit alleges that the deployment violates the district’s semi-sovereign status known as Home Rule, where the city has jurisdiction over its own affairs but Congress can override its decisions. “In so doing, he has run roughshod over a fundamental tenet of American democracy—that the military should not be involved in domestic law enforcement,” the lawsuit states, referring to President Donald Trump. This is a breaking story and will be updated.  ...