WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb is suing the federal government to try and end what he calls an “illegal military occupation of the District.”

There are still nearly 2,500 National Guard troops in D.C. Schwalb is asking a federal judge to temporarily stop troop deployment as the lawsuit goes forward.

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Department of Justice lawyers argue that this is a political stunt and that D.C. is safer, but lawyers for D.C. said irreparable harm is being done with troops on the street.

“Today we made clear again in court that the military has no business doing civilian policing,” Schwalb said.

It’s been more than two months since President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to D.C.

Schwalb and his team told a federal judge Friday that their presence is inflicting real and ongoing harm.

“It’s not making D.C. safer to have out-of-state guards who are not trained to do policing, who are not familiar with our communities, who are not trained to do the kind of key law enforcement work that our MPD [Metropolitan Police Department] does,” he said.

An attorney for the Department of Justice said that the “guard is making D.C. safer.” They claimed that Mayor Muriel Bowser is supportive because of her September executive order to coordinate communication with federal law enforcement.

The judge pushed back, saying Bowser is not supportive of out-of-state guards.