District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday for stripping power from the district’s police department.

On Thursday, the Justice Department appointed an “ emergency police commissioner ” to oversee the Metropolitan Police Department amid President Donald Trump’s temporary federal takeover of the district to reduce crime, leading Schwalb to issue a letter contending that Attorney General Pam Bondi and the DOJ had no legal basis to take such action.

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