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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Gary Fields and Lindsay Whitehurst

Judge orders Trump to end ‘illegal’ National Guard deployment in DC but troops aren’t going home yet

Members of the National Guard patrol the National Mall in Washington, DC, next to a statue depicting US President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands near the US Capitol on October 2, 2025 - (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to end a monthslong deployment of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital.

President Donald Trump’s military takeover in Washington, D.C., illegally intrudes on local officials’ authority to direct law enforcement in the district, U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb concluded.

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