Judge Rules That National Guard Deployment In DC Is Illegal, Concerned That 2,000 Troops May Become 'Permanent'
"A federal judge ruled Thursday that Trump’s Defense Department illegally overstepped its authority in deploying 2,000 local and out-of-state National Guard to Washington D.C., part of President Trump’s crackdown on blue cities."
"While Trump has gotten mixed results elsewhere — a win at the appellate level in California, a loss in Illinois, a still-pending ruling from the Supreme Court — conventional wisdom has held that stateless D.C.’s was the weakest case."
"But Judge Jia Cobb, a Biden appointee, found that while Trump may have powers akin to a governor’s over her state’s National Guard, those powers are not absolute. She also dismissed the administration’s claim that the broad sweep of presidential power covers whatever holes might otherwise be poked in his authority over the district."
“ 'The Court finds that the President has no free-floating Article II power to deploy the [D.C. National Guard] for the deterrence of crime,' she wrote."
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