Brian Schwalb claims that the troops of the National Guard operating without legal authority in Washington

DC prosecutor Brian Schwalb announced Thursday that he had filed a complaint to counter the repression of the crime of the Trump administration in Washington, DC

President Donald Trump Federal DC Metropolitan Police Department On August 11, under the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, which allowed the president to take emergency control of the police for 30 days.

Secretary of defense Pete Hegseth Later, soldiers and aviators authorized to be armed at DC if their mission requires it.

“Armed soldiers should not be controlled by American citizens on American soil,” Schwalb wrote in the announcement on X. “DC did not ask or consented to the deployment of national guard troops. However, there are 2,300 national guards in our streets in military equipment, carrying weapons and driving armored vehicles.”

President Donald Trump visits the American police operations center Anacostia on August 21, 2025 in Washington, DC (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

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Schwalb said that the Comitatus Posse law prohibits soldiers from engaging in domestic police, alleging that the national guards operated in DC under direct military command.

“It is clearly illegal, and it threatens our democracy and our civil freedoms,” he wrote.

“President Trump is in his legitimate power to deploy the National Guard to Washington, DC to protect federal assets and help the police with specific tasks,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told Fox News Digital in a statement. “This trial is nothing more than another attempt – to the detriment of residents and visitors to DC – to undermine the very successful operations of the president to arrest violent crimes at DC.”

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Although the 30-day period is expected to expire next week, vice-president Jd vance On August 20, suggested that the mission could continue. All extensions should be approved by the congress.

Schwalb said that there was “no clear end date for this illegal deployment”, adding more troops arriving in the national capital this week.

The armed members of the National Guard are patrolling the American Capitol while security tightens following the deployment order of President Trump. (Getty Images / Tasos Katopodis)

An executive decree of August 25 has expanded the role of the National Guard in the national police by creating a specialized unit within the National Guard of DC which is “dedicated to public security and order in the national capital”.

Schwalb noted that once the troops leave, they could be redeployed at any time.

“The misdeeds in the district are immense,” he wrote. “The National Guard units operate without legal authority and without training of the police. They create confusion, betray each other, erude confidence, ignite tensions and harm the crucial relationship between the police and the communities they serve.”

The members of the National Guard were among the demonstrators at Union Station. (Fox News Digital / Emma Woodhead)

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He then accused the national guards of undergoing public security and of harming the local economy by depressing vital industries such as restaurants, hotels and tourism.

“We continue to defend DC Home Rule and stop the illegal deployment of the National Guard”, Schwalb wrote. “Our nation has been based on the fundamental principles of freedom and autonomy that are at stake. No city in America should be subject to an involuntary military occupation.”

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The trial comes a few days after a federal judge ruled that the deployment by the administration of federal troops in Los Angeles during raids and immigration demonstrations was illegal, praising the governor of California Gavin Newsom and the mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass.

It also followed a separate trial that Schwalb brought on August 15, which tried to block the federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department – the reduction in action violated the law on the rule of the domicile.