1. United States
2. Mich.
3. Letter

I am writing to urge Congress to immediately enforce the Posse Comitatus Act and block the unlawful domestic deployment of out-of-state National Guard units for civilian law enforcement in Washington, D.C. The administration’s ongoing "D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force" and the recent "Summer Surge" initiative—which aims to station up to 5,000 National Guard troops in the nation's capital—directly violate the foundational principles of American democracy. In late 2025, U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb explicitly ruled that federalizing out-of-state National Guard troops to act as a domestic military police force in D.C. is illegal and an abuse of executive power. This follows similar federal court rulings, such as Judge Charles Breyer's decision condemning the illegal deployment of troops in Los Angeles as a willful violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. Office of the Attorney General - DC.gov+ 1 Normalizing the use of military personnel to patrol American streets, operate traffic checkpoints, and conduct crowd control sets a dangerous precedent that erodes the constitutional separation between military operations and civilian policing. Using a Title 32 legal loophole to bypass congressional oversight and override local authority cannot be tolerated. Courthouse News Our National Guard members are everyday citizens, neighbors, and parents who volunteered to protect their home states and defend our country from foreign threats—not to be weaponized as a standing federal police force against American citizens on American soil. I demand that Congress exercise its power of the purse to defund these illegal domestic deployments, pass legislation to strip the executive branch of loopholes used to bypass the Posse Comitatus Act, and order the National Guard to be sent home to their families and communities.