Washington D.C.’s attorney general filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Thursday over the president’s deployment of the National Guard in the city, a move that arrives just as Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are reportedly drafting legislation that seeks to make the elected attorney general a political appointee.
The lawsuit accuses President Donald Trump and senior defense officials of violating the Posse Comitatus Act, a law meant to prevent the president from using the military to enforce domestic law, among other laws, when he sent the National Guard to help curb crime in the nation’s capital.
