Trump, DC and District police
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The fallout from Trump's federal takeover of the police force in D.C. continues. Bondi's latest move prompts backlash.
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The Dispatch on MSNFederal Jurisdiction Over the District of Columbia, Explained
P resident Donald Trump became the first president to invoke the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to take temporary control over law enforcement in Washington, D.C., citing high crime levels that constituted an emergency.
A warning to other U.S. cities from D.C.'s former leaders as President Donald Trump's administration continued to try to exert influence over the Metropolitan Police Department. "The District is most vulnerable because of the limits on our self-governance and unjust lack of voting rights in Congress,
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The nation’s capital finds itself at the center of a Trump maelstrom as National Guard troops arrive
In Trump’s second term, backed by Republican control of both houses of Congress, Bowser has walked a public tightrope for months, emphasizing common ground with the Trump administration on issues such as the successful effort to bring the NFL’s Washington Commanders back to the District of Columbia.
The District of Columbia's attorney general sued Donald Trump on Friday in a bid to impede his attempted takeover of Washington's police force, escalating a power struggle between the Republican U.S.
President Trump has warned he might send the National Guard to other cities. The Black mayors of those cities vow to push back.
When Trump announced his law enforcement actions in D.C., he also singled out a slew of other Democratic cities. The mayors of Baltimore, LA, Chicago, New York and Oakland, Calif., say crime is down.
President Trump said he would take over Washington, D.C.'s police force and deploy National Guard troops to fight crime and car thefts.