Attorney General Anthony G. Brown today co-led a coalition of 24 attorneys general and governors in an amicus brief supporting Oregon’s court challenge to the Trump administration’s latest attempts to unlawfully use the military for civil law enforcement.
“President Trump has now deployed the National Guard four times in four months to cities where local police are fully capable of maintaining law and order,” said Attorney General Brown. “These deployments are about politics, not public safety. Maryland stands with Oregon because the Trump administration’s repeated abuse of power threatens every state’s ability to govern itself and protect its residents. We cannot allow these deployments to become the new normal.”