• Oh, what a night: Mayor Bowser took a midweek trip to Martha’s Vineyard to pick up her kid (and definitely not to attend a summer-ending party hosted by former Ward 4 Councilmember Brandon Todd); U.S. AG Bondi escalated the takeover of MPD and rescinded policies prohibiting cooperation with ICE; and D.C. AG Schwalb filed a lawsuit challenging the takeover and what he calls “the gravest threat to Home Rule that the District has ever faced.” Minus two for ill advised travel and authoritarianism, and plus one for the lawsuit. -1 [WCP, WCP] • That’s embarrassing: As the old saying goes, a grand jury could indict a ham sandwich. When, then, did the too-racist-for-Fox-News U.S. Attorney for D.C., Jeanine Pirro, twice fail to get a grand jury to indict a woman on a felony charge of assaulting
The Needle: D.C. Challenges Trump’s Police Takeover, Pirro Twice Fails to Secure Indictment for Alleged Assault on an Officer, And Hoagie Hurler Fired

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