Updated August 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM PDT

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."

Late Friday, Schwalb said he won a victory in court when federal officials agreed to leave daily control of the MPD in Metropolitan Polic

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