• Suits Me: According to anonymous sources, Mayor Muriel Bowser encouraged Attorney General Brian Schwalb to delay filing his lawsuit against the Trump administration until after Sept. 10. That’s the day convicted felon and President Donald Trump’s authority over the city’s police department expires under D.C.’s Home Rule Act. Schwalb, not heeding Bowser’s urging, filed his federal suit yesterday, which argues that Trump is illegally using the military for local law enforcement. Sources say Bowser believes that after Sept. 10 she can use the goodwill she’s garnered with the administration to begin drawing down Trump’s deployment of the National Guard. “My 100 percent focus is exiting the emergency,” Bowser said at a press conference Thursday. Minus one point because capitulating is not wor

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