Washington, D.C. Attorney General describes Pam Bondi’s order as “illegal”

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi The order issued Thursday knocked down the DC Metropolitan Police Department’s asylum policy and put the Director of Drug Enforcement Terrence Cole as Chief of Emergency Police — but DC Mayor Muriel Bowser delayed a letter highlighting a letter that the District of Columbia’s Columbia law firm Brian Schwalb had ordered for Brian Schwalb, which came from Bondi. ”

“Referring to the order of the U.S. Attorney General, there is no regulation that conveys personnel power in the region to federal officials,” said Bowles on social media. postal.

Bowser includes a letter from Schwalb to MPD Police Chief Pamela Smith, in which DC. The attorney general said he believed that Bundy’s order was “unlawful” and that Smith “had no legal obligation to follow it.”

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Bondy announced through an order that police leaders “must obtain the approval of Commissioner Cole before any further directives are issued to the MPD.”

Bondy repealed an executive order that was just issued by the police chief on Thursday.

She also suspended the sections of two general orders “until further notice” and directed the MPD to “to the maximum extent permitted by law, section 22-1307, the District of Columbia Code and all the District of Columbia regulations relating to the illegal occupation of public places.”

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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks at a press conference held at the DEA headquarters in Arlington, Virginia on July 15, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The showdown between the two lawyers and generals is the president Donald Trump Try to combat crime in the country’s capital.

He sent this week Executive Order Announced that “the mayor of the District of Columbia (Mayor) shall provide services to the Metropolitan Police Force for federal purposes for the maximum period permitted under Section 740 of the Domestic Rule Act.”

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But in a letter to the Washington, D.C. Police Chief, Schwab asserted that Section 740 of the National Rule Act “does not authorize the President or his delegation to revoke or replace the Chief of Police; to change the chain of command within the MPD; to directly ask you, the MPD, the MPD or anyone other than the MPD, or to rule the MPD order; to simply local law enforcement.

“Therefore, the Bundy order is Ultra Vires,” he declared.

Brooke Singman of Fox News Digital contributes to this report