Trump Orders National Guard Into Washington, Takes Over D.C. Police

Trump literally said in May that crime was down 25% in Washington DC, and congratulated them.


DD

 

The District of Columbia sues the Trump administration over its policing takeover.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/us/washington-dc-police-trump-lawsuit.html?smid=url-share

excerpt:

The District of Columbia government filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging the Trump administration’s “brazen usurpation” of the city’s authority by trying to take control of the D.C. Police Department, in a marked escalation of tensions between local and federal authorities in the nation’s capital.

The suit argues that both President Trump’s executive order on Monday federalizing the Police Department and a follow-up order by Pam Bondi, the U.S. attorney general, “far exceed” the president’s authority under the Home Rule Act of 1973, which granted D.C. its limited degree of self-government.

Such an attempt to “upend the command structure of the Police Department” risks “endangering the safety of the public and law enforcement officers alike,” the suit says, using the Trump administration’s argument for public safety against it.

The suit asks the court for an injunction against Ms. Bondi’s order and a declaration that the administration’s actions are unconstitutional and a violation of the Home Rule Act.

The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court by the D.C. attorney general, Brian Schwalb, comes after the Trump administration moved on Thursday to expand its control of the city’s Police Department by installing an “emergency commissioner” and revoking policies that limited officers’ cooperation with immigration enforcement.
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Lawsuits

I guess

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Will they abide by any judgement?

 

afaik Trump hasn't mobilized the National Guard to storm the courts so far

 

This tick tock video changes EVERYTHING.

 

Is it true that the head of DC police used to run their DEI office? If so then wow. She cannot be the answer to the District’s crime problem.