# District of Columbia v. Trump **Status: stub — expand.** **D.D.C. No. 1:25-cv-03005 (Judge [[Jia Cobb]]).** The District's challenge to the August 2025 [[National Guard]] deployment in Washington. Structurally **not** a 10 U.S.C. § 12406 case: the out-of-state units were in Title 32 status under their own governors, and the D.C. Guard answers to the President directly under D.C. Code § 49-409. The claims ran through the [[Administrative Procedure Act]] and the [[District of Columbia Home Rule Act]] instead. | Date | Step | |---|---| | 2025-09-04 | Suit filed | | 2025-11-20 | Preliminary injunction and § 705 stay granted | | 2025-12-17 | D.C. Circuit stays it — the President has "a unique power within the District ... under 32 U.S.C. § 502(f)" | | 2026-01-14 | Deployment extended through the end of 2026 by Army memorandum | | 2026-04-01 | Government's opening appellate brief filed; appeal pending | The D.C. case is the one place the government has so far won on the structure rather than the facts — because the District has no governor to route an order through. ## See also - [[National Guard Federalization Flow]] · [[National Guard]] · [[Posse Comitatus Act]] · [[Insurrection Act]]