The DC prosecutor describes the order of Pam Bondi as “illegal”

The American prosecutor General Pam Bondi issued an order on Thursday to slap the policies of the sanctuary of the DC metropolitan police department and place the administration of the administration of the Drugs Terrence Cole in charge of the department as an emergency police commissioner – but the mayor of DC Muriel Bowser has rejected, highlighting a letter from Bondful.

“In reference to the order of the American prosecutor general, there is no law which transmits the authority of the district personnel to a federal official,” said Bowser in social media job.

Bowser included a letter from Schwalb to the MPD police chief Pamela Smith, in which the DC prosecutor general said that, in his opinion, the order of Bondi “is illegal” and that Smith was “not legally forced to follow him”.

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The mayor of Washington, DC, Muriel Bowser, speaks at a press conference after President Donald Trump announced a federal takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department at Wilson Building on August 11, 2025 in Washington, DC (Images Kevin Dietsch / Getty)

In his prescription, Bondi said that police leaders “were to receive the approval of Commissioner Cole before issuing other directives to the MPD”.

Bondi canceled a decree which has just been issued Thursday by the police chief.

It also suspended parts of two general orders “until further notice” and ordered the MPD “to enforce, to the fullest extent allowed by law, article 22-1307, the Columbia district code and the municipal regulations of the Columbia district concerning the illegal occupation of public spaces”.

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The American prosecutor General Pam Bondi talks to a press conference at the DEA headquarters on July 15, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. (Images Alex Wong / Getty)

The test of strength between the two general prosecutors intervenes while President Donald Trump seeks to reprimand crime in the national capital.

This week he published a executive decree Who declared “the mayor of the District of Columbia (Mayor) will provide the services of the metropolitan police forces for federal purposes for the maximum period authorized under article 740 of the law on the rule of domicile”.

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But in the letter to the DC police chief, Schwalb said that article 740 of the Home Rule Act “does not allow the president, or his delicacy, to delete or replace the police chief; to alter the chain of control pursues the purely local order forces.

“The Bondi order is therefore ultra vires,” he said.

Fox News Digital Brooke Singman contributed to this report