WASHINGTON — The Trump administration agreed Friday to rewrite an order that would have given the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) emergency authority over the Metropolitan Police Department. DEA Administrator Terry Cole will instead be named the attorney general’s “designee” to request police services from D.C.'s mayor.

The agreement, reached between Justice Department attorneys and D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb’s office came after more than an hour of closed-door negotiations, staves off for now a potential restraining order that could have enjoined parts of the administration’s takeover of District police under the never-before-invoked D.C. Home Rule Act.

Mayor Muriel Bowser joined Schwalb in federal court Friday as his office argued the administration’s attempt

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