Posted on 08/15/2025 8:30:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
You knew it was bound to happen.
The federal district of Washington filed a suit against Donald Trump on Friday because his administration federalized the police in the federal city.
Here's CNBC:
Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit Friday challenging President Donald Trump's unprecedented takeover of the U.S. capital city's police force ...
'The Administration's actions are brazenly unlawful,' Schwalb said in a statement after his suit was filed in U.S. District Court in D.C.
Yes, unlawful, compared to the lawful crimes that were happening before? 👇
More from CNBC:
Trump signed an executive order Monday commanding Mayor Muriel Bowser to temporarily hand over the MPD to the federal government, while pressuring Congress to let him keep that control for longer.
His order asserted emergency powers over D.C. by invoking a never-before-used section of the Home Rule Act, the 52-year-old law that established district's local government.
The U.S. Constitution gives Congress jurisdiction over D.C. in "all cases whatsoever." Between 1874 and 1973, there was no local government in place, meaning all law enforcement in the city was directly overseen by the federal government, which appointed a board of commissioners to run things.
Trump is "pressuring Congress" because Congress has the authority to decide who controls the police force in the city. Congress also retains the ability to overturn all locally passed legislation, and oversees the city's budget.
So you can evaluate CNBC's objectivity in choosing that language, as Trump is also "pressuring Congress" because Section 740 of the 1973 Home Rule Act requires him to.
The Home Rule Act gives the president authority to take control of the "Metropolitan Police force for Federal purposes" when "special conditions of an emergency nature exist," but he must write Congress to give "reason for such direction and the period of time during which the need for such services is likely to continue."
D.C. Attorney General Schwalb, however, says Trump's order violates the D.C.'s right to "self-governance."
'They go well beyond the bounds of the President's limited authority and instead seek a hostile takeover of MPD. They infringe on the District's right to self-governance and put the safety of DC residents and visitors at risk,' Schwalb said.
(Anyone want to take bets on which activist judge will order Trump to stop making the streets safe?)
Hope DC residents enjoyed the safety while it lasted!
Criminals including Dems and the Left hate it when crime is put to a stop.
No standing. lol
Wait for it...
Judge Jeannine new US Attorney for DC, in for the legal beatdown
Trump would not make this move unless thorough preps assured he was on legal ground
I want every Democrat in Washington D.C. to be serious victims of their desire for crime.
If this is what you vote to get—get it as completely as possible.
It’s all about power. The dems have lost some of their power and they don’t like it.
They deserve to lose power because when they have it they abuse it.
“... The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
yet ANOTHER overtly pro-crime Democrat!
What standing does this lawyer have? Likely nothing!
He’s a Democrat, that’s all that matters..............
Uh, isn't it the exact opposite?
Democrat party sues Trump for stopping crime.
Liberal logic usually is..............
The last "Republican" to actually have power was Ike.
Nixon? Well, they did get rid of him due to Watergate.
Reagan? He was focused on the Soviet Union due to the Cold War.
Remember Ike's farewell speech warned us about the MIC.
Somebody has to defend the right of career criminals and psychotic thugs to ply their trades without interference. It’s in the Constitution somewhere.
Crime is the biggest money maker for our lawyer class. If you check our three branches of government at the local, state and federal levels you’ll find that it is mainly packed full of lawyers. A criminal with a long rap sheet is a big earner for them and if that criminal is off the streets they are losing money.
What’s the difference between a lawyer and a criminal?
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A license..............
The Constitution sets D.C. apart from the rest of the nation as a special case.
To my way of thinking The Federal Government should take Arlington back and make D.C. whole again.
What’s the difference between a good lawyer and a bad lawyer? .
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A bad lawyer can let a case drag out for several years. A good lawyer can make it last even longer.
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