WASHINGTON — Tension in the nation's capital escalated Friday over the question of who controls the city's metropolitan police department after Washington D.C.'s Attorney General filed a federal lawsuit challenging the White House's bid for full control .

"These unlawful assertions of authority will create immediate, devastating, and irreparable harms for the District," AG Brian Schwalb said in his legal filing. "Most critically, the order threatens to upend the command structure of MPD and wreak operational havoc within the department, endangering the safety of the public and law enforcement officers alike."

Local officials were clearly struggling to avoid this kind of clash. When President Trump said he was demanding authority over Washington D.C. law enforcement on Monday, Mayor

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