The D.C. attorney general tipped his hand with a legal opinion advising local police that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi's order purporting to install a new "emergency" police commissioner — the DEA administrator — was "unlawful" and not to be followed. The clash of memoranda between top attorneys, local and federal, all but guaranteed a court fight would follow over the Trump administration's show of force in Washington, and now it has.

At the start of the week , President Donald Trump , flanked by members of his cabinet, Bondi included, declared that the feds would crack down on "violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out maniacs and homeless people" through the deployment of D.C.'s National Guard, FBI agents, and ICE on the streets of the nation's

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