Washington, D.C.,’s Mayor Muriel Bowser is pushing back against Attorney General Pam Bondi ’s appointment of Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) chief Terry Cole as D.C.’s “Emergency Police Commissioner,” arguing that “there is no statute that conveys the District’s personnel authority to a federal official.”

Bondi issued the appointment in a directive late on Thursday night , stating that Cole “shall serve as MPD’s (Metropolitan Police Department) Emergency Police Commissioner for the duration of the emergency declared by the President.”

Per Bondi, as part of Cole’s appointment, the DEA chief “shall assume all of the powers and duties vested in the District of Columbia Chief of Police” and all MPD seniors must wait for approval from Cole before issuing any of their own directives.

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