A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to end its months-long deployment of National Guard troops to help police the nation’s capital.
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Cobb found that the president only has the power to call up the Guard “through the exercise of a specific power outlined in state law”, not for “whatever reason” he sees fit.
In August, Trump issued an executive order declaring a crime emergency in Washington. Within a month, more than 2,300 National Guard troops from eight states and the district were patrolling the city under the command of the Secretary of the Army.
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Trump also deployed hundreds of federal agents to help in patrols.
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