Judge to ponder challenge to West Virginia National Guard deployment in the nation's capital

A court in West Virginia is set to hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging the deployment of the state National Guard to patrol the streets of Washington, D.C., as part of President Donald Trump’s push to send the military into Democratic-run cities. The hearing Monday afternoon is the third in the past three weeks in Charleston over the state's response to Trump's crime-fighting efforts, which have unleashed a whirlwind of lawsuits and overlapping court rulings. West Virginia is among several states that sent National Guard members starting in August to the nation's capital.