Update No. 2 | The esteemed Prof. Stevie Vladeck has the goods. Trust him. Mine below contained some important errors of law.
But the upshot is [still] much the same: Tangerine only has very limited in time and scope powers, here:
. . .[M]ost significantly, the Home Rule Act gives the President the power to take control of the D.C. Police “whenever [he] determines that special conditions of an emergency nature exist which require the use of the Metropolitan Police force for federal purposes.” The authority is limited to no more than 30 days (it’s limited to 48 hours unless the President sends a special notification to the Chair and Ranking Members of the relevant congressional committees explaining why he needs the authority for longer). And even within those 30 days, the authority is simply to use the MPD “for federal purposes.” In other words, the President can borrow the MPD for his own priorities; but he can’t control how they discharge their other duties. . . .
End second updated portion.
Update 08.11.2025 -- here's what this is really trying to mask. End update.
Trump imagines that he can roll federal troops into DC. What a feckless moron.
He possesses
So this is all just more agit-prop, for his mal-informed MAGA base. It will come to. . . nothing. [That is a link to NPR reporting, BTW. Do go read it all -- but here's a bit:]
. . .White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. . . called the nation's capital "more violent than Baghdad. . . ."
[DC Mayor (and Democrat) Muriel Bowser promptly replied] "Any comparison to a war-torn country is hyperbolic and false. . ." Bowser said.
They mayor did acknowledge a crime spike in 2023, but said there had been a steep, two-year drop in violence since then. District crime data show violent crime is down 26% when compared to last year. . . .
What a pack of losers. Out.
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