AG Brown: WA has spent past year preparing for ‘unlawful’ National Guard deployment
Oct 7, 2025, 6:11 PM | Updated: Oct 8, 2025, 11:29 am
As President Donald Trump called for the National Guard in Portland, Seattle has been bracing for similar federal action.
Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown said the state has been laying the groundwork for the past year.
“We’ve been preparing for this sort of thing from the beginning, not just during my nine months as Attorney General, but over the last year,” Brown said on “Seattle’s Morning News.” “Plus, states across the country, including Washington, have reviewed what the president said, reviewed statements in Project 2025, which contemplated this sort of thing, to make sure that we had all the legal research done and all the analysis done to see how we might have to respond to this.”
Brown believes National Guard deployment to Seattle is unwarranted.
“There’s certainly not an insurrection happening in Washington. There’s not anything in Seattle that would necessarily necessitate that kind of action. But we have to be ready for this sort of recklessness that we’ve seen from DC,” he shared.
Brown added that the president’s actions violate the law.
“It’s not lawful to do it in the way that the president is doing it. That is why multiple judges across the country have found it unlawful, including judges appointed by the president himself,” he explained.
Watch the full discussion in the video above.
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