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he White House has backed off plans for a full takeover of the D.C. police force and will allow for the city’s police chief to remain in charge after a judge indicated they would block the move.

President Donald Trump this week invoked emergency powers to take control of the D.C. police department and call in the National Guard to a city that he claimed is overrun by "bloodshed, bedlam and squalor"—a claim that is disputed by experts.

As part of the federal takeover, Attorney General Pam Bondi appointed Drug and Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Terrance C. Cole as “Emergency Police Commissioner,” a move that would have given the White House extraordinary powers over policing.

The city’s Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit calling for an emergency restraining order to block the move, accusing the Trump Administration of implementing a “hostile takeover” of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) that would lead to “imminent, irreparable harm”.

“In my nearly three decades in law enforcement, I have never seen a single government action that would cause a greater threat to law and order than this dangerous directive,” Smith wrote in the lawsuit

Judge Ana Reyes said in a Friday hearing that, according to the Home Rule Act, the Department of Justice needed to rewrite the section of the executive order that placed Cole in charge, and that he needed to go through the city’s mayor. Reyes stopped short of issuing a restraining order, but indicated that if the DOJ did not rewrite the section, she would.

“The statute [The Home Rule Act] would have no meaning at all if the president could just say ‘we’re taking over your police department,’” Reyes said.

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[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 109 points 1 week ago (3 children)

luckily, thanks to the “checks and balances” of our three branch government, he will surely be immediately removed from office for this blatantly illegal move.
i mean, he knew it was illegal, everyone told him it was illegal, and he tried to do it anyways until a judge stopped him.
obviously there will be legal repercussions for such an action.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Any law that is against what Trump wants is undemocratic, because Trump was democratically elected by the people!

Seriously he actually claimed that! As if every other democratic process is void, and only his election counts.
The man is insane, and unfortunately part of it is that he is a malignant narcissist. And it's only been just over ½ a year, so he is just getting started.

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

and the kicker is, he wasn’t even elected.
there’s tons of evidence the election was stolen.

[–] Jikiya@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is not a ton of evidence, there are rumors and conjecture. I say that wishing there was proof so many people didn't actually elect him.

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

no, there is actually a ton of evidence.
election truth alliance has a lot of hard data, and on gross reddit, r/somethingiswrong2024 has a lot on that, but they get off topic a lot.
they have impossible statistics, they have exactly who updated the voting machines and the file name.
no rumors or conjecture, hard data….
i started looking into it to disprove it but it’s solid.

[–] Jikiya@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is false, if there was evidence it would be in court. Every licensed lawyer would be filing suit. The fact there is no suit tells you there is no actual evidence.

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago

Regardless of the lawsuit's outcome, it won't change the results of the 2024 presidential election, which Congress has already certified.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So who is using all of this hard evidence to sue?

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

there are multiple lawsuits, but i’m not going to waste energy listing them for a sea lion.
if you actually wanted to know, go ahead:
https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You can't list any because electiontruthalliance.org doesn't have any. You very easily could have just referenced that site instead of reddit.

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where are all of those lawsuits agian?

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didn't South Korea do this to their president when pulled a similar stunt?

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago

yes, they did.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, certainly South Korea isn't better at this democracy stuff than the beacon on a hill, the world's melting pot, the home of the free....?

Right?..

[–] ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

well of course!
any day now….