National Guard Deployment To Memphis Blocked by Tennessee Judge

Davidson County Chancellor Patricia Head Moskal wrote that Tennessee Governor Bill Lee's authority to deploy the National Guard is "not unfettered" and ruled their current deployment to Memphis to act as law enforcement violates the state's constitution. She wrote, "The governor may only call the militia into service in cases of rebellion or invasion and only with the General Assembly's declaration that the public safety requires it." Some of the outrageous costs of these deployments were also revealed, as the state is claiming it will cost at least $8M just to stop their deployment. The Tennessee Attorney General had argued that the deployment of the guard was beyond judicial review, and the court obviously disagreed with that assertion.