Posted on 11/20/2025 12:55:15 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Nov 20 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday halted for now President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Washington D.C., dealing Trump a temporary legal setback to his efforts to send the military to American cities over the objections of local leaders.
U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to enforce the law in the nation’s capital without approval from its mayor.
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Cobb paused her ruling until Dec. 11 to allow the Trump administration to appeal.
The legal fight is playing out alongside several others across the country as Trump presses against longstanding but rarely tested constraints on presidents using troops to enforce domestic law.
District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb, an elected Democrat, sued on Sept. 4 after Trump announced the deployment on Aug. 11. The lawsuit accused Trump of unlawfully usurping control of the city’s law enforcement and violating a law prohibiting troops from doing domestic police work.
Trump has unique law-enforcement powers in Washington, which is not part of any state, but local officials say he overstepped by supplanting the mayor’s policing authority and violated legal prohibitions against federal troops doing civilian police work.
Trump administration lawyers called the lawsuit a political stunt in court filings and said the president is free to deploy troops to Washington without the approval of local leaders. The administration also has said the troops are operating lawfully and successfully reducing crime.
Trump, a Republican, has also moved to deploy troops in Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon, to combat what he describes as lawlessness and violent unrest over his crackdown on illegal...
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Car jackings, robberies, assaults, murders…all down. Not good.
President Joe Biden nominated Cobb to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
SS, DD
Biden appointee, no big surprise.
Ignore
Unfortunately I don’t think he does that.
All Biden appointed judges should be null and void.
The Biden appointments are proving to the worst ever. A pack of unqualified leftist nation killing radicals, many of whom got Republican votes.
Yes, Boo Boo, Jia Cobb IS in fact one of them. A young fat female Biden appointee. Gonna be around raping America from the bench for some time to come.
I think they were grown on a tree outside Joe’s beach house.
These political hacks in gowns are frustrating the will of the electorate.
Like all American voters who rejected Kamala, I’m fed up.
President Trump can wait until we are thwarted 1,000 more times by these unelected democrat stooges, or he can start ignoring them now.
Emmet Sullivan, Clinton stooge, held off retiring to senior status till The Autopen could replace him with Biden stooge, Jia "Miss Piggy" Cobb.
Andrew Jackson time
Big screw-up by the Democrats. The mayor was having her cake and eating it, too.
Doesn’t a House committee have true responsibility for the DC government? Pretty sure Constitutionally that’s still the case, They can give permission!
Home rule for DC was one of Nixon’s dumber actions!
Pattern recognition.
When I went into the voting booth I must have missed all the federal judges listed under the President/Vice President choices on the ballot.
“Trump, a Republican”
Gee thanks Reuters I didn’t know that.
What’s the difference between God and a federal judge?
God doesn’t think that He’s a federal judge.
A Kenjii Jackson clone >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jia_M._Cobb
She’s very heavy
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