Washington, D.C., on Thursday sued the Trump administration over its deployment of hundreds of National Guard troops to the capital city's streets, arguing that the move violates the Constitution and federal law.

President Donald Trump "has run roughshod over a fundamental tenet of American democracy—that the military should not be involved in domestic law enforcement," D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb wrote in the federal lawsuit .

"These unprecedented, unlawful actions have subjected the District to serious and irreparable harm," Schwalb wrote.

The suit names Trump and the heads of the Pentagon, the Department of Justice, the Army and the U.S. Marshals Service, as well as their respective departments, as defendants.

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