Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea J. Campbell, joined by colleagues in nearly two dozen states, has joined Washington, D.C.’s fight to get the National Guard off the streets of the nation’s capital.

In a brief filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Campbell and her colleagues argue that the Trump administration’s decision to deploy troops without the consent of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is "unlawful, unconstitutional, and undemocratic."

“I am proud to stand with my colleagues in urging the court to reject this illegal National Guard deployment that creates unnecessary fear, undermines established trust between residents and local law enforcement, and conjures up the horrors of a police state where law enforcement patrols and controls rather than protects its people,”

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