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D.C. Leaders Reject Pam Bondi’s Order Installing DEA Administrator as Chief of Police

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered Washington, D.C.'s mayor and police chief to recognize Terry Cole, the head of ...

New lawsuit challenges Trump’s federal takeover of DC police department as crackdown intensifies

District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit saying Trump is going beyond his legal power over the ...

D.C. targets federal takeover of police department in court

District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb said in a new lawsuit that President Donald Trump is going far beyond his power under the law.

Terry Cole, chosen to take over DC’s police force, has spent 22 years at DEA

He’s spent more than 31 years as a law enforcement officer, including 22 at the DEA. At the agency, he worked in Oklahoma, New York and Washington. He spent time overseas in Colombia, Afghanistan and ...

DC officials defy Bondi order appointing ‘emergency police commissioner’ in federal takeover

Leading authorities in Washington, D.C, on Thursday rebuffed attempts by the Trump administration to further federalize the ...

Bondi names DEA head as DC's 'emergency police commissioner,' but capital leaders push back

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser wrote on social media that “there is no statute that conveys the District’s personnel ...

DC's attorney general deems Bondi order to replace police chief unlawful

The order by a federal official to replace the police chief of the Metropolitan Police Department on an "emergency" basis has been deemed unlawful by D.C.'s AG.