District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday for stripping power from the district’s police department.
On Thursday, the Justice Department appointed an “emergency police commissioner” to oversee the Metropolitan Police Department amid President Donald Trump’s temporary federal takeover of the district to reduce crime, leading Schwalb to issue a letter contending that Attorney General Pam Bondi and the DOJ had no legal basis to take such action.
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