Overview
- Judge Jia Cobb ordered the deployment terminated after finding the administration exceeded statutory authority.
- The decision said Washington’s Guard could not be activated without an explicit local request and barred using out-of-state units for policing.
- Roughly 2,300 Guard members remain in the city under a plan that envisions their presence through late February 2026.
- Media reports put operating costs at about $1 million per day as the city’s lawsuit, led by Attorney General Brian Schwalb, proceeds.
- Trump initiated the mission in August citing rising crime, a rationale not supported by available statistics, and similar deployments in other cities have drawn adverse rulings.