The fallout from Trump's federal takeover of the police force in D.C. continues. Bondi's latest move prompts backlash.

DC officials rejected U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi's order that Terry Cole, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, be made the “emergency police commissioner” of the MPD.

Under the accord presented by the two sides to U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, Trump administration lawyers conceded that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's appointed police chief, Pamela Smith, would remain in command of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department.

Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb (D) sued President Trump early Friday after the administration installed the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) head to command the city’s