District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb announced Thursday that the District is suing the Trump administration for its National Guard presence in the capital.
“Armed soldiers should not be policing American citizens on American soil,” Schwalb wrote on X. “The forced military occupation of the District of Columbia violates our local autonomy and basic freedoms. It must end.”
Since declaring a “crime emergency” in the nation’s capital in mid-August, National Guard troops from seven other states have joined the president’s mobilization of thousands of D.C. National Guard members and a federalized metro police force in patrolling the capital’s streets.