The National Guard’s takeover of Washington was not legal, a U.S. District Court judge ruled Thursday.Judge Jia Cobb ruled that the Pentagon had “exceeded the bounds of their authority” by ordering troops into the nation’s capital for “non-military, crime-deterrence missions” without the express permission of the city’s leadership.Donald Trump deployed 800 National Guard members to Washington and federalized the capital’s police department at the end of the summer to combat what he described as a crime-riddled hellscape. To justify the government infringement, the president pointed to rising crime rates, immigrant populations, and homelessness—though the figures he used were from 2023, before violent crime plummeted across the country. In 2024, crime in the nation’s capital was down 35 percent, according to data from the Metropolitan Police Department.This is a developing story.
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