Kanawha Circuit Judge Richard Lindsay wants to know more about the governor’s powers to send the West Virginia National Guard to Washington, D.C.

Lindsay heard about an hour of courtroom argument today in a challenge to Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s deployment of 300 to 400 Guard members after President Trump declared a “crime emergency” in the nation’s capital.

The judge then continued the hearing until 10 a.m. Nov. 3 because he wants the lawyers to more fully develop the question of how the law affects the governor’s deployment powers, particularly in the federal district.

“The central issue to this court is whether or not the what the governor did is in compliance with West Virginia law,” Lindsay said at the conclusion of a hearing today.

The judge ordered both sides of the case to submit

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