Responding to a Trump administration request, three Republican-led states said they will send hundreds of additional National Guard troops to Washington.

Three states moved to deploy hundreds of members of their National Guard to the nation’s capital as part of the Trump administration’s effort to overhaul policing in Washington through a federal crac...

But those crimes, as heinous as they are, do not remotely justify the extreme step of enlisting the National Guard and taking over the city’s police department against the mayor’s wishes.