In a legal opinion letter, first reported by Washington City Paper, the district’s elected attorney general, Brian Schwalb, advised D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser that the order from the U.S. attorney general taking power away from the city police chief is “unlawful,” and telling her “you are not legally obligated to follow it.”

D.C. officials gave homeless residents notice to vacate their encampments as part of President Trump's push for them to leave the city.

Alec Baldwin reacted with alarm to President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the Washington, D.C., police department and his deployment of troops to the city — saying they are examples of Trump’s “insane moves” to “deflect from his inadequacy.

Actor Alec Baldwinunleashed on Donald Trumpin an explosive video on August 14 after the president announced he would deploy the National Guard and put the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control to combat crime in the city.