D.C. Sues Trump Administration to Block Federal Takeover But Has Little Leverage Under Home Rule
MEDIA BUZZmeter
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🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:38.0 | Get involved. |
| 0:39.7 | It doesn't matter what it is. |
| 0:41.4 | The thing to do is hire a lawyer. |
| 0:43.6 | And that's what the District of Columbia has done. |
| 0:47.9 | And, you know, this is really wrapped up in the politics because it's funny. |
| 0:51.5 | With the federal takeover here in Washington, it sounded like the mayor, Muriel Bowser, |
| 0:59.1 | was going along because D.C. has very limited home rule powers. |
| 1:05.4 | But now, and I think this has as much to do with local politics, showing that she's a fighter, showing that she doesn't want to let Donald Trump just run roughshod over her police department. |
| 1:20.0 | The city has filed, yes, a lawsuit. |
| 1:23.7 | I don't know. |
| 1:24.2 | It's a pretty sharp departure from the fact that she was just, I don't know, a day ago, welcoming the National Guard, welcoming the FBI. There's even some ICE agents now. So we'll just dive in here and make it story number one. Pam Bondi ordered the mayor and the D.C. |
| 1:46.9 | police chief to recognize Terry Cole, head of the DEA, as the district's emergency police commissioner, |
| 1:57.4 | and also ordered the immediate suspension of D.C. police policies limiting cooperation with |
| 2:04.8 | federal immigration authorities because while they're stopping people at traffic stops and so forth, |
| 2:10.3 | they may find a few people who are in the country illegally. |
| 2:14.2 | Bowser is saying there's nothing in the law that would support giving up to district's personnel authority to a federal official. |
| 2:23.3 | As she puts out a statement, let us be clear about what the law requires during a presidential declared emergency. |
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