CHARLESTON – Even as soldiers with the West Virginia National Guard begin arriving in Washington, D.C., to meet President Donald Trump’s call to help quell crime in the nation’s capital, a lawsuit could undo that deployment.

The West Virginia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU-WV) and West Virginia Citizens Action Group (WV CAG) filed a lawsuit late Thursday against Gov. Patrick Morrisey and Maj. Gen. James Seward, the adjutant general of the West Virginia National Guard.

The lawsuit, filed in Kanawha County Circuit Court, is seeking a permanent injunction to block the recent deployment of the National Guard to Washington and a declaratory judgement that the deployment exceeds statutory and constitutional authority.

“West Virginia Citizen Action Group has deep concerns

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