Washington is seeking an emergency restraining order to block President Donald Trump’s takeover of its police department.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi appointed DEA Administrator Terry Cole as the "emergency police commissioner" of the Metropolitan Police Department.

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,