DC continues the Trump administration on the “illegal” federal takeover

Friday, the DC prosecutor general continued the Trump administration over his federal takeover of the DC police forces and his deployment of the national guard troops in the city, arguing that the effort is “illegal” and exceeds the authority of Trump as commander -in -chief.

The trial, tabled Friday by the DC prosecutor General, Brian Schwalb, challenges Trump’s executive order to temporarily federate the DC under article 740 of the DC house rule, and the Attorney General Pam Bondi Thursday who seeks to install the leader of the DEA as an emergency commissioner of metropolitan police – who could not be incited to “Brazen the Metropolitan Police Department.

In the file, subject to the Federal Court of DC, Schwalb urged the court to block the two orders of the administration, declaring that the temporary takeover of the DC police by the Trump administration under article 740 of the DC Home Rule law “does not authorize this cheeky usurpation of the district authority”.

“They affect the right of the district to the autonomy and security of DC residents and visitors in danger.” He said.

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Schwalb also asked the court to grant an emergency compensation in the form of a temporary ban order, or Tro, which would prevent Trump’s order from taking the force immediately while the court examines the merits of the case.

The case was assigned to the American district judge Ana Reyes, a person named by Biden, who in turn ordered the two parties to appear in court on Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. to weigh the emergency request.

The position is likely to win Reyes, who also chaired legal action involving Trump’s ban on transgender soldiers, back in Trump’s reticle for the second time in less than eight months.

Reyes issued a preliminary injunction blocking Trump’s ban on transgender soldiers to take strength, which prompted Trump allies to label him as an “activist” judge, even after the injunction was canceled by a higher court.

The Ministry of Justice also filed a fault complaint against Reyes earlier this year, citing its remarks with government lawyers. Reyes, however, has a reputation for its lively and fast questioning style and used it easily as it also wins avocados for the complainants. The chief judge of the American Court of Appeal for the Circuit of the District of Columbia, Sri Srinivasan, has never taken a measure on the complaint.

The chief of the metropolitan police, Pamela Smith, declared in a legal file on Friday that Trump’s order “endorses the security of the public and the agents of the police”.

“During my almost three decades in the application of laws, I have never seen a single action of the government which would lead to a greater threat to the law and the order than this dangerous directive,” she said in the judicial file asking for an emergency intervention.

The trial comes five days after Trump published an executive decree To temporarily federate DC, that he described as an effort to “restore the order and public security” and temporarily federalize the city, which he described on Monday as “one of the most dangerous cities in the world”.

This order included the deployment of hundreds of troops from the DC National Guard in the city and temporarily taking federal control of the DC police forces.

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On Thursday, Bondi expanded this effort by ordering the chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Terry Cole, installed as “emergency” commissioner of the metropolitan police, put the current touch of the chief of the metropolitan police Pamela Smith.

“By declaring a hostile takeover of MPD, the administration abuses its temporary limited authority under the Act respecting the interval rule, relating to the district right to the self-government and by putting the safety of DC residents and visitors in danger,” said Schwalb in a statement on Friday.

“The illegal actions of the administration are an affront to the dignity and autonomy of the 700,000 Americans who call DC at home,” he added. “This is the most serious threat to the rule of the house that the district has ever faced, and we are fighting to stop it.”

The trial highlights a lively week in the national capital, while President Donald Trump and the White House officials assaulted what they describe as a quantity of “ridiculous” crime at DC

Deputy Chief of Staff of the White House, Stephen Miller, said in Newsnation in an interview earlier this week than Washington, DC, “was more violent than Baghdad”. They allegedly alleged that recent data – which revealed that a 26% drop in violent crimes between 2023 and 2024 – was “manipulated” or underestimated.

A few hours earlier, the America First Foundation (AFL), linked to Trump, filed a request to request all the crime files and the data compiled by the DC Metropolitan Police Department, as part of an effort to examine the information and statistics of the crime in question.

Meanwhile, criticisms have excrupted Trump’s decree, which, according to them, is not based on an increase in crime or “emergency” – but rather justification for the administration to pass its executive action outside the process of developing normal policies.

Norm Eisen, the former ethics tsar of the White House under President Barack Obama, told journalists on Thursday that Trump’s order in DC is the last of a “model of aggression against the rule of law” in his second mandate as president.

Trump “told DC a false emergency, said Eisen. “There is no” urgency “on which this action with MPD or the Federal Army is founded” in DC, said Eisen. “In fact, the crime fell to DC”

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In March, Trump signed an executive decree, “making DC Sa-Taste Task Force”, designed to solve the problems with a city that he has long shot in “dirty”, “horribly” and “crime” patterns, among others.

“We want to have great sure capital,” he told journalists earlier this year. “And we are going to have it. And that includes cleanliness, and that includes other things.”