Federal law enforcement agents, with members of Washington’s police force, at a checkpoint last month. President Trump has ordered National Guard troops and hundreds of additional federal law enforcement officers to patrol the capital.
Thousands of armed troops are deployed as part of President Trump’s crime crackdown. So far, it has been a lot of beautification projects and assisting the local police.
At a heated committee session on bills exerting more federal control of Washington, the 88-year-old delegate sat quietly, reading with difficulty from a script.
The president’s authority to make demands of local police expires on Wednesday night, but the most visible federal interventions in the city will remain for now.
The president’s authority to make demands of local police expires on Wednesday night, but the most visible federal interventions in the city will remain for now.
Mr. Trump made the short trek from the White House to Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab to show that his federal crackdown on crime in the nation’s capital was working.
On Monday, the Supreme Court lifted a ban on immigration agents’ use of factors like ethnicity or speaking of Spanish to make arrests in Los Angeles, affirming fears among delivery drivers in Washington.
President Trump speaking on Monday at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, where he made a series of false statements about the level of crime in the nation’s capital.
At least 11 defendants stayed in jail cells longer than the law allows, in what former prosecutors and criminal lawyers see as a violation of their constitutional rights.
The president has sent soldiers and federal agents to some cities, and promised to do the same in others, prompting lawsuits and stirring outrage among local leaders.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Tuesday reinstated Rebecca Kelly Slaughter to the Federal Trade Commission, saying she had been fired without cause.
Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois, center, alongside Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago and Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton during a news conference on reports of federal deployment in Chicago, on Tuesday.
If President Trump’s actions were intended to drive a law-and-order wedge between Democratic big-city leaders and their constituents, it has also exposed a division in his own coalition.
Republican governors who have mustered National Guard troops for deployment in blue-state cities may re-examine their deployments if federal intervention significantly brings crime down.
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, also deflected criticism of a case in which her office was unable to obtain an indictment against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent.
A relative of an unaccompanied minor deported from the United States reviewing a list of those deported outside La Aurora International Airport, in Guatemala City on Sunday.
The president is looking to add troops to city streets while cutting funds for programs that work, experts and local officials say. But one idea, beautifying neighborhoods, has buy-in.
Democrats once had a chance to blunt a couple of the moves President Trump is making now, on redistricting and the takeover of the police force in Washington, D.C.
The U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Back in the spring of 2021, when Democrats controlled the House and Senate, there were two measures that would have helped to protect against some of President Trump’s current moves.
The extraordinary pushback in at least three separate cases comes as President Trump has flooded the streets with National Guard troops and federal agents.
Crime has fallen in Washington since federal agents started policing Washington’s streets in large numbers, but the surge has chafed against some residents who have found the presence of troops and agents to be a cause of fear, not of security.
Crime has fallen since federal agents started policing the streets of Washington in large numbers. Court records show that they have been involved in about a third of arrests that resulted in prosecution, many of them for minor offenses.
Many of the arrests in Washington, D.C., involving federal agents have been for low-level offenses. A man was taken into custody in the Columbia Heights neighborhood Aug. 22 on a charge of smoking marijuana in public.
President Trump’s extraordinary push to override local authority and militarize cities in Democratic-run states has prompted an unusually united response from state leaders.
Earlier this week Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois warned President Trump to keep the military out of Chicago and reminded his audience that of the 10 states with the highest homicide rates, eight are led by Republican governors.
The deployment of federal agents and National Guard troops has caused some Black parents to return to the days of “the talk” about policing that they had hoped was no longer needed to keep their children safe.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that his department, which owns Union Station, will assume control of the train hub from the nonprofit that has been controlling it.
It was a sharp rebuke to the prosecutors who were assigned to bring charges against those arrested after President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents to Washington.
It is unclear how Mr. Trump would carry out his directive. The Supreme Court ruled that mandatory death sentences were unconstitutional nearly half a century ago.
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