Tennessee state judge blocks National Guard deployment to Memphis amid 130 arrests in Charlotte
Tamara Ceaikovski
A Tennessee state court judge temporarily blocked on Monday Republican Governor Bill Lee's deployment of National Guard troops to the city of Memphis, ruling that the use of troops was likely not legal under the state's militia law.Chancellor Patricia Head Moskal of the Davidson County Chancery Court in Nashville said the militia law required Tennessee's General Assembly to call in the National Guard for public safety.She ruled that crime rates in Memphis were not a "grave emergency" or "
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