DC Attorney General sued for blocking police acquisition
Justice correspondent David Spunt joined the ‘US News Room’ to discuss Washington, DC Attorney General President Donald Trump’s efforts to block the federal acquisition of local police. ‘Fox News Sunday’ anchor Shannon Breame is also weighing.
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A judge on Friday suggested the illegal duties of the police chief for the appointment of Terry Cole, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration to limit the power of the Trump administration to handle the control of the police department at Washington, DC.
Judge Ana Rayes gave lawyers to the Justice Department and the DC government to reach a deal in the evening, which will limit coal rights, or it would issue a temporary preventive order.
Rayes, a biden appointment, said that the comprehensive questions of the comprehensive questions of President Donald Trump will be addressed in the court hearing next week, announcing the comprehensive questions of comprehensive questions on the comprehensive questions of the nation.
In the immediate future, the Trump administration will still control the metropolitan police department on a large scale, whether it reaches a deal with the DC government or under the order of the court.
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Washington, DC Mayor Muril Boser speaks at a press conference, when President Donald Trump announced the federal acquisition of the Metropolitan Police Department at Wilson Building in Washington, DC on 11 August 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
DC Attorney General Brian Shwalab held an emergency hearing after Trump’s DC filed a lawsuit to prevent law enforcement operations. Schwalb argued that the step was unconstitutional and a federal law, which gives DC inhabitants the ability to do self-governance, violates the Home Rule Act.
The hearing was a small shock for the administration, as Rayes indicated that Cole should go through Mayor Muril Boussar to give any further instruction to the police force.
Schwalb on Friday implicated the hearing as a win, telling reporters that “Hopefully there is an important issue regarding control and command [the MPD] Today has been resolved, and it is clear, as a case of law, that it is under the police chief appointed by the Mayor. ,
But the law also means that Boussar should avoid heavily for coal, which means that he is able to continue the policing priorities of Trump administration in DC about being immigrant and homeless for a period of 30 days.
DOJ Attorney Yakov Roth, while arguing on behalf of the government, said that the President has a lot of discretion to determine “what is necessary and appropriate.”
Bausar and Dell. Ellenor Holmes Norton, DDC, E. Barrett Pritiman attended the hearing at the Federal Courthouse. Outside the building, dozens of federal acquisitions gathered, including activating hundreds of national guard soldiers in DC, including people of the “Free DC” movement, who underlines the tension arising on Trump’s orders.
“We know that DC residents are worried and worried, and we have the growth of federal officials,” Boseer told reporters. “chairman [Pamela] Smith’s job during this week is to ensure that if we have and while we have federal officers, they are being used strategically. ,
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Trump nominated Terry Cole to become the next administrator of the drug enforcement administration. (AP / Virginia.gov)
At the beginning of the hearing, Rayes noticed that he would be the first judge to rule the President’s right to temporarily take control of the metropolitan police department under the Home Rules Act as the Congress had passed the law in 1973, underlining the importance of the case.
The judge clarified that he did not immediately plan to rule on whether a crime was an emergency, as Trump said in his executive order, but some temporary resolution still needed.
“I want to get a practical solution because the time is short and there are people who need to know from whom they are taking direction and what they are doing,” Ryes told the two parties.
Reece, who is known to preside over a fast-paced court, who keeps the litigants on his toes, hit a tone of moderation carefully on Friday.
“I don’t think the law is as narrow as you think or as wide Mr. Roth thinks,” he told Attorney Mitchell Reich, who argued on behalf of DC Attorney General.
Shwalab’s trial challenged Trump’s executive order that DC was temporarily federal under DC on Thursday of Section 740 and Attorney General Palm Bandi of the Home Rule Act, which demanded to establish Cole as emergency commissioner of DC Police Force. Shwalab’s office argued that the tricks were unprecedented and “could wreak havoc” on the police department.
Schwalb urged the court to block both orders of the Trump administration, stating that the Temporary Acquisition of the Federal Government under the Home Rule Act “under the Home Rule Act” “does not authorize this brazen usurpan of the district rights on its government.”
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Police officials set up a roadside post at Washington, DC on August 13, 2025 on the 14th Street Northwest. (Tasos Cutopodis/Getty Image)
“They violate the rights of the district of self-governance and risk the safety of DC residents and visitors,” he said.
Critics have stimulated Trump’s executive order, arguing that it is not reflective of any real emergency in the country’s capital, which has seen a decline in violent crime (although, how much, in fact, remains a point of controversy).
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Under President Barack Obama, former White House Ethics Caesar Attorney Norm Easen, former White House Ethics, told reporters on Thursday that Trump’s order in DC is the latest in “the pattern of attack on rule of law” in his second term as President in his second term, which involves various forms of “emergency” which are included as an instrument for general policy processes.
Esen said that Trump has “declared a fake emergency”. “There is no ’emergency”, on which this action is dedicated to the MPD or the federal army. “
Jessica Sonkin contributed to this report.