Community advocates who oppose Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s deployment of the National Guard to support President Donald Trump’s crackdown in the nation’s capital have filed a lawsuit challenging the move.

The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday sued Gov. Patrick Morrisey (R-WV) for deploying the state’s National Guard to Washington, D.C. Morrisey was one of several red-state governors to send National Guard troops to the capital to supplement President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington,

Even as soldiers with the West Virginia National Guard begin arriving in Washington, D.C., to meet President Donald Trump’s call to help quell crime in the nation’s capital, a lawsuit could undo that deployment.

Virginia Gov. Youngkin says the National Guard will deploy as part of the Virginia Homeland Security Task Force, focusing on support, not street patrols.

The lawsuit contends that the deployment is an unprecedented political act, not a response to a genuine emergency and violates West Virginia law that outlines specific, limited circumstances for out-of-state Guard deployments.

The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia has filed a lawsuit to halt the deployment of the West Virginia National Guard to the streets of Washington, D.C.

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