Federal troops are patrolling the National Mall and neighborhoods across Washington in President Donald Trump’s extraordinary takeover of the police department in the nation’s capital. Now the Trump administration is moving to install its own emergency police commissioner,

The U.S. capital Washington sued Donald Trump on Friday over his attempted takeover of the city's police force, escalating a power struggle between the U.S. president and the city's leadership.

The District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday, in response to what the district called the federal government’s “unlawful assertions of authority.”