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The move is noteworthy as Mayor Muriel Bowser has been generally cooperative with the federal effort. D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb brought the suit, however. Washington, D.C., is suing the Trump administration over its deployment of the National Guard in the nation's capital.The suit states Trump "has run roughshod over a fundamental tenet of American democracy – that the military should not be involved in domestic law enforcement," NBC News reported.Trump began the federal takeover last month to crack down on crime. He further assumed direct control of the city's police force and asked for National Guard troops from...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s capital sued to block President Donald Trump’s takeover of its police department in court on Friday, hours after his administration escalated its intervention into the city’s law enforcement by naming a federal official as the new emergency head of the department.Washington’s police department chief said Trump’s move would threaten law and order by upending the command structure. “In my nearly three decades in law enforcement, I have never seen a single government action that would cause a greater threat to law and order than this dangerous directive,” Police Chief Pamela Smith said in a court...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi appointed DEA Administrator Terry Cole as the "emergency police commissioner" of the Metropolitan Police Department.WASHINGTON — Brian Schwalb, the attorney general for the District of Columbia, filed a lawsuit in federal court in Washington on Friday challenging the Trump administration's takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department.The lawsuit challenges Trump's Monday order as well as Attorney General Pam Bondi's Thursday order claiming federal control of the D.C. police force. Schwalb's office argued that the orders exceed the limits on requesting services from D.C., which it says can only be done on a temporary basis under emergency...