The D.C. AG tipped his hand with a legal opinion advising local police that AG Pam Bondi's order was "unlawful" and not to be followed. Now there's a lawsuit. The post 'This is the gravest threat': DC AG sues Trump and Pam Bondi for 'brazenly unlawful' takeover just hours after telling police chief to ignore US attorney general first appeared on Law & Crime.

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday evening ordered DC’s mayor and police department to accept Terry Cole, the head of the Drug Enforcement Agency, as the district’s “emergency police commissioner” and give him full control of the department during the federal takeover — quickly drawing rebukes from the district’s mayor and attorney general,

Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a directive issued Thursday evening that DEA boss Terry Cole will assume “powers and duties vested in the District of Columbia Chief of Police.” The Metropolitan Police Department “must receive approval from Commissioner Cole” before issuing any orders,

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Pam Bondi is effectively in charge of the police department in Washington, D.C. — so says the White House. But the city’s police force already has a Pam at the helm — Chief Pamela Smith — and she says she only reports to the mayor.

The agreement relates to the portion of the order that placed DEA Administrator Terry Cole over D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith.

The left sees President Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of law enforcement in Washington as part of multifront march to autocracy