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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/us/dc-trump-national-guard-suit.html

D.C. Sues Trump Administration Over Deployment of National Guard
The city is challenging the federal government’s authority to send troops into the city for what the president has called a “public safety emergency.”[/quote]

Los Angeles recently won a court case over National Guard deployment there, after the fact. [/quote]

Yup.  This is mentioned in the article.

[quote]The suit also makes an argument similar to the one the judge in California based his ruling on: that the deployment of National Guard troops in the city runs “roughshod over a fundamental tenet of American democracy — that the military should not be involved in domestic law enforcement.”

Mr. Trump had made clear that such a role was his intention, saying on Aug. 11 that he was calling out the Guard to “reestablish law, order and public safety” in the city. Since then, even as federal law enforcement officers have been involved in hundreds of arrests and immigration agents have been detaining hundreds of Washington residents deemed to be in the country illegally, the National Guard troops have been posted at Metro stations and around city landmarks. Some soldiers have been seen picking up trash.
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