Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday evening directed the Washington, DC, mayor and police department to end the capital’s sanctuary city policies and formalized the federal government’s control of DC police.

In an order, Bondi declared that Terry Cole, the head of the Drug Enforcement Agency, is now operating as the district’s “emergency police commissioner,” giving him full control over the police department during the federal takeover. And, the memo said, MPD leaders “must receive approval from Commissioner Cole before issuing any further directives.”

Bondi further ordered the MPD to abandon a directive its chief signed earlier in the day giving officers limited ability to share information with federal immigration officials.

Justice Department officials believed that earlier dir

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