Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb on Friday filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for stripping power from the District of Columbia’s police department. The Justice Department on Thursday appointed an “emergency police commissioner” to oversee the Metropolitan Police Department amid President Donald Trump’s temporary federal takeover of the nation’s capital to reduce crime,

The District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday, in response to what the district called the federal government’s “unlawful assertions of authority.”

This is the gravest threat to Home Rule DC has ever faced, and we are fighting to stop it,' says Brian Schwalb, attorney general for the capital - Anadolu Ajansı