US capital sues over Trump鈥檚 National Guard deployment
The attorney general for the US capital filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking to end president Donald Trump鈥檚 deployment of the National Guard to address crime in the city.
The attorney general for the US capital filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking to end president Donald Trump鈥檚 deployment of the National Guard to address crime in the city.
Donald Trump threatened to deploy National Guard troops Sunday to yet another Democratic stronghold, the Maryland city of Baltimore, as the US president seeks to expand his crackdown on crime and immigration.
The Trump administration has been planning for weeks to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago as part of an expanded crackdown on crime and immigration, according to reports in US media.
The Trump administration won a temporary reprieve聽to retain control of California National Guard troops at least until Tuesday after a day of legal tussling over the president鈥檚 decision to send them to quell demonstrations in Los Angeles that erupted over immigration raids.
Demonstrators torched cars and scuffled with 聽security forces in Los Angeles on Sunday as police kept protestors away from the National Guard troops President Donald Trump sent to the streets of the second biggest US city.
Massive wildfires that engulfed whole neighbourhoods and displaced thousands in Los Angeles have killed at least 10 people, authorities said, as California鈥檚 National Guard soldiers readied to hit the streets to help quell disorder.