What happened

Washington, D.C., Thursday sued President Donald Trump and his administration over the deployment of National Guard troops in the capital. D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb argued that the unsolicited military presence violated both the law that granted the city limited home rule and the Posse Comitatus Act, which broadly prohibits the use of military personnel for domestic law enforcement.

Who said what

"No American jurisdiction should be involuntarily subjected to military occupation," Schwalb said in a statement. His lawsuit asked a federal court to order Trump to withdraw the more than 2,200 National Guard members mobilized in D.C. and to prohibit another such deployment. The White House said it believes Trump "is well within his lawful authority" to deploy the Gu

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