Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about Trump losing the DC National Guard fight.

A federal judge has ruled that Trump and the Department of Defense unlawfully deployed troops to D.C.

So you can add D.C. to the list of places where a judge has declared the deployments weren't in bounds.

Judge Cobb wrote a 60-something page ruling, going over the problems with the deployment in detail.

But a key part is, quote,

The court rejects defendants fly by assertion of constitutional

power, finding that such a broad reading of the president's Article 2 authority would erase

Congress's role in governing the district and its National Guard. That answers one of the big questions. When we first talked about this,

we talked about how D.C. was different than other locations, because it's all under federal control.

And the president obviously has more leeway on federally controlled land than in other places.

The question observers had was whether the courts would treat D.C. more like a state or more like a military base. Judge Cobb said, quote,

At its core, Congress has given the district rights to govern itself. Those rights are infringed upon when defendants approve in excess of their statutory authority the deployment of National Guard troops to the district. So basically what it's saying is that Trump needed a request from DC authorities for the deployment.

The judge also said, quote,

The court finds that the district's exercise of sovereign powers within its jurisdiction

is irreparably harmed by defendant's actions in deploying the guards.

Beyond all of that, the judge seemed to have an issue with Trump bringing in

National Guard from other areas. The deployment seemed to be planned to run until the summer of

2026, but that's uncertain now, especially since the judge expressed concerns about the deployment becoming permanent or

enduring. D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwab released a statement saying, quote,

From the beginning, we made clear that the U.S. military should not be policing American citizens

on American soil.

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