AG showdown: DC attorney general rejects US Attorney General Pam Bondi order as 'unlawful'

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 Read Entire Article