Brian Schwalb claims National Guard troops operating without lawful authority in Washington

The Attorney General of DC, Brian Schwalb Washington, DC

President Donald Trump the Metropolitan Police Department of the DC On August 11th as part of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, which enables the President to take over the emergency control over the police for 30 days.

Minister of Defense Pete Hegseth Soldiers and planes later authorized to be armed in DC if their mission requires this.

“Armed soldiers should not monitor American citizens on the American soil,” Schwalb wrote in the announcement on X. “DC requested or did not agree to the use of troops of the National Guard.

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Schwalb said that the Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the military to participate in the domestic police and claims that the national guards in the DC under Direct Military Command were active.

“This is clearly illegal and threatens our democracy and our bourgeois freedom,” he wrote.

“President Trump lies in his right -wing authority to support the National Guard in Washington, DC, to protect federal assets and to support the law enforcement authorities with specific tasks,” said the spokeswoman for the White House, Abigail Jackson, in a statement to Fox News Digital. “This lawsuit is nothing more than another attempt – among the residents and visitors of DC – to undermine the President’s extremely successful operations in order to stop violent crime in DC.”

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Although the period of 30 days next week is to run, Vice President Jd vance The mission proposed on August 20. All extensions would have to be approved by the congress.

Schwalb claimed that it was “not a clear end date for this illegal commitment” and added this week in the capital of the nation.

An executive order on August 25 expanded the role of the National Guard in domestic law enforcement by creating a specialized unit within the DC National Guard, which “is dedicated to securing public security and arrangement in the country’s capital”.

Schwalb noted that the troops were able to use any point as soon as they left.

“The damage to the district is immense,” he wrote. “Units of the National Guard work without a lawful authority and without training law enforcement authorities. They create confusion, sow fear, erode the trust, the inflammation of tensions and damage the decisive relationship between the police and communities that they serve.”

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He continued to accuse the national guards of undermining public security and violating the local economy by depressing vital industries such as restaurants, hotels and tourism.

“We sue to defend the DC home rule and stop the illegal use of the national guard”, Schwalb ” wrote. “Our nation was founded on the basic principles of freedom and self -government, which are involved in this case. No city in America should be subject to involuntary military crew.”

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The lawsuit takes place days after a federal judge decided to use federal levels in Los Angeles during the immigration attacks by the government, and protests were illegal and praised by California Gov. Gavin Newsoma And Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass.

There is also a separate lawsuit that Schwalb submitted on August 15, in which attempts were made to block the takeover of the federal government of the Metropolitan Police Department – which had violated the lawsuit against the law on the house rule.