Trump Invokes Home Rule Act to Seize Control of D.C. Police — Here’s What He Can and Can’t Do
President Donald Trump on Monday placed Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) under federal control, citing what he described as “crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor” in the nation’s capital. In an executive order, Trump invoked Section 740 of the 1973 District of Columbia Home Rule Act—a rarely used provision allowing the president to take charge…
