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DEA Administrator Terry Cole granted full powers over Metro Police Department as AG Pam Bondi rescinds sanctuary city policies in Washington, DC
Elizabeth Pritchett By Elizabeth Pritchett Fox News
Published August 15, 2025 3:40am EDT
 
Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a two-page order on Thursday rescinding illegal immigration protections in Washington, D.C., and naming an "emergency police commissioner" for the city's Metropolitan Police Department.

Bondi's order, titled "Restoring Safety and Security to the District of Columbia," mostly took aim at sanctuary city policies within the nation's capital, rescinding any order that limits how Metropolitan police officers can handle interactions and incidents with illegal immigrants.

She also stripped power from Metro Police Chief Pamela Smith by naming Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Terry Cole as the department's "emergency police commissioner," granting him all the "powers and duties vested" in the position.
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Re: AG Bondi strips power from DC police chief, rescinds sanctuary city protections in crime crackdown o
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AG Bondi strips power from DC police chief, rescinds sanctuary city protections in crime crackdown operation

DEA Administrator Terry Cole granted full powers over Metro Police Department as AG Pam Bondi rescinds sanctuary city policies in Washington, DC
Elizabeth Pritchett By Elizabeth Pritchett Fox News
Published August 15, 2025 3:40am EDT
 
Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a two-page order on Thursday rescinding illegal immigration protections in Washington, D.C., and naming an "emergency police commissioner" for the city's Metropolitan Police Department.

Bondi's order, titled "Restoring Safety and Security to the District of Columbia," mostly took aim at sanctuary city policies within the nation's capital, rescinding any order that limits how Metropolitan police officers can handle interactions and incidents with illegal immigrants.

She also stripped power from Metro Police Chief Pamela Smith by naming Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Terry Cole as the department's "emergency police commissioner," granting him all the "powers and duties vested" in the position.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ag-bondi-strips-power-from-dc-police-chief-rescinds-sanctuary-city-protections-crime-crackdown-operation
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Re: AG Bondi strips power from DC police chief, rescinds sanctuary city protections in crime crackdown o
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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued an order on Thursday to slap down D.C. Metropolitan Police Department sanctuary policies and place Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Terrence Cole in charge of the department as emergency police commissioner —  but D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser pushed back, highlighting a letter in which District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb opined that the order from Bondi "is unlawful."

"In reference to the U.S. Attorney General’s order, there is no statute that conveys the District’s personnel authority to a federal official," Bowser said in a social media post.

Bowser included a letter from Schwalb to MPD Police Chief Pamela Smith, in which the D.C. attorney general said that, in his view, the order from Bondi "is unlawful" and that Smith is "not legally obligated to follow it."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ag-showdown-d-c-attorney-general-rejects-u-s-attorney-general-pam-bondi-order-unlawful
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« Reply #3 on: Today at 01:52:11 pm »
Important things to read here:

https://govfacts.org/explainer/understanding-the-relationship-between-d-c-and-the-federal-government/

And this...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_Home_Rule_Act (DCHRA)

In short, Congress has delegated authority to the Executive in Section 740 of the DCHRA to do precisely what President Trump and AG Bondi are doing.

Section 740 of the DC Home Rule Act, entitled "Emergency Control of Police" requires the mayor of DC to "provide, such services of the Metropolitan Police force as the President may deem necessary and appropriate" whenever the President of the United States determines that "special conditions of an emergency nature exist which require the use of the Metropolitan Police force for Federal purposes".

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« Reply #4 on: Today at 01:57:32 pm »
So if an AG says an order is "considered unlawful", then it doesn't have to be followed?

Pam Bondi should try this approach, the next time some pipsqueak leftist judge issues another sweeping nationwide injunction!
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Quote from: MeganC on Today at 01:52:11 pm
Important things to read here:

https://govfacts.org/explainer/understanding-the-relationship-between-d-c-and-the-federal-government/

And this...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_Home_Rule_Act (DCHRA)

In short, Congress has delegated authority to the Executive in Section 740 of the DCHRA to do precisely what President Trump and AG Bondi are doing.

Section 740 of the DC Home Rule Act, entitled "Emergency Control of Police" requires the mayor of DC to "provide, such services of the Metropolitan Police force as the President may deem necessary and appropriate" whenever the President of the United States determines that "special conditions of an emergency nature exist which require the use of the Metropolitan Police force for Federal purposes".

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I would think the President could remove both the Mayor and DA for non-compliance with orders.
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I would think the President could remove both the Mayor and DA for non-compliance with orders.

I would agree.
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Quote from: Canuck Conservative on Today at 01:57:32 pm
So if an AG says an order is "considered unlawful", then it doesn't have to be followed?

Pam Bondi should try this approach, the next time some pipsqueak leftist judge issues another sweeping nationwide injunction!

No, an Attorney General can only issue Opinions.  Only a Judge can issue "Orders."
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I would think the President could remove both the Mayor and DA for non-compliance with orders

Remove the incompetent Police Chief too, and that's a trifecta made in Heaven!!
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Remove the incompetent Police Chief too, and that's a trifecta made in Heaven!!

With Trump's people in charge of Metro Police, she has no power other than ordering office supplies.  Best to just leave her unless she starts issuing orders nobody needs to follow.  Then she can be slapped down.
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No, an Attorney General can only issue Opinions.  Only a Judge can issue "Orders."

Lets play "Judge Shopping for One Thousand" Alex.
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Lets play "Judge Shopping for One Thousand" Alex.

Oh, I expect that any time now....
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"She also stripped power from Metro Police Chief Pamela Smith..."

Does this mean that Ms. Smith has now learned what the "chain of command" is...?
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« Reply #14 on: Today at 06:18:06 pm »
Canuck wrote:
"Remove the incompetent Police Chief too..."

I believe that has already been done.
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Canuck wrote:
"Remove the incompetent Police Chief too..."

I believe that has already been done.

Do it again with the former Chief Equity Officer, now acting Chief of Police.  She's as sharp as a box of bowling balls.
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Re: AG Bondi strips power from DC police chief, rescinds sanctuary city protections in crime crackdown o
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Quote from: Fishrrman on Today at 05:27:02 pm
"She also stripped power from Metro Police Chief Pamela Smith..."

Does this mean that Ms. Smith has now learned what the "chain of command" is...?
But she don't want no chains....that's racis or something.
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I's is be being sayin' dat that chain-of-command ain't not is be being a chain to me!
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