WASHINGTON —

President Donald Trump says his takeover of Washington, D.C.'s police force and his deployment of the National Guard should put other cities on notice, as his administration aims to crack down on crime and homelessness.

"We have other cities also that are bad, very bad," Trump said at a news conference on Monday, calling out Democrat-led cities like Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and Baltimore."This will go further. We're starting very strongly with D.C., and we're going to clean it up real quick." Advertisement

But legal experts say, outside of the nation's capital, the president's power to take those steps is more limited.

Meryl Chertoff, a law professor at Georgetown University, said the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects states from "excessive interfer

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