Overview

• Attorney General Brian Schwalb’s federal suit says out-of-state Guard troops were deputized by the U.S. Marshals and used for patrols, searches and arrests in violation of the Home Rule Act and the Posse Comitatus Act.
• Roughly 2,000-plus Guard members from six states and D.C. are operating under Joint Task Force–DC, with military orders expected to run through December, according to Guard officials and Army reporting.
• The White House defends the operation as lawful and credits it with more than 1,000 arrests, over 100 firearms seized and sharp reductions in violent crime, figures that critics dispute as evidence of federal overreach.
• D.C.’s case leans on a new California ruling that found Trump’s Los Angeles deployment unlawful, though legal distinctions apply because the D.C. Guard reports directly to the president.
• Mayor Muriel Bowser issued a coordination order she says offers an off-ramp from the federal emergency, as the administration weighs similar deployments in other cities such as Chicago.