Lawsuit seeks to halt West Virginia National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C.

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A newly filed lawsuit seeks to halt deployment of the West Virginia National Guard to Washington, D.C., arguing that an order by Gov. Patrick Morrisey exceeds his constitutional and statutory authority.

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.

Morrisey announced last weekend he would send 300 to 400 Guard members to the nation’s capital as part of the Trump administration’s takeover of the city’s law enforcement.

The plaintiffs emphasized that officials representing the District of Columbia’s local government did not request this aid and that crime rates in the city are at a historic low.

https://wvmetronews.com/2025/08/21/lawsuit-seeks-to-halt-west-virginia-national-guard-deployment-in-washington-d-c/

[MrWowWow]

1. Just Offer Them Soap and Asswipe

Works every time!

[underpants]

2. A. Go Aubrey! B. Blair Mountain. C. WV has a strong Special Forces element to it.

WV SF is Middle East focused. They spent a lot of time in Afghanistan right after 9/11.

West Virginia law governing National Guard deployments was shaped by legal battles following the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain, where National Guard troops were deployed against U.S. citizens, said Aubrey Sparks, legal director for ACLU-West Virginia.

—- Monday is the 104th Anniversary of the start of the battle —-

The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and is the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War.[4][5] The conflict occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, as part of the Coal Wars, a series of early-20th-century labor disputes in Appalachia.

Private planes were hired to drop homemade bombs on the miners. [citation needed] A combination of poison gas and explosive bombs left over from World War I were dropped in several locations near the towns of Jeffery, Sharples and Blair. [citation needed] At least one did not explode

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain