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DC's bid to block Trump’s National Guard deployment hits basic legal snag: Can’t sue itself

FIRST ON FOX: A conservative watchdog urged a federal appeals court Wednesday to toss Washington, D.C.'s National Guard lawsuit, arguing the city cannot sue itself because it is part of the federal government."To start, one cannot sue oneself," Oversight Project lawyers wrote in a brief in the case. "And that is what this case ultimately is—the United States suing itself. Moreover, it is a foundational principle of the law that a municipal corporation cannot sue its sovereign creator."The appeal sits at the intersection of Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in Washington last year and...