Lawyers for the Trump administration and Washington, D.C., reached an agreement Friday to partially scale back U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi 's order placing the city's police force under federal control.

Under the terms of the new agreement, the Washington, D.C., police chief will command the district's police force, rather than Terry Cole, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, to whom Bondi had previously given full control.

Why It Matters

The legal battle playing out on Friday showed the escalating tensions in a mostly Democratic city that had its police department under the control of the Republican presidential administration in its midst.

The president's effort to take over the city's police department is his latest effort to test the limits of his legal authorit

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