Overview
- Governor Patrick Morrisey ordered 300 to 400 West Virginia National Guard members to deploy to Washington at President Trump’s request to bolster federalized policing efforts.
- The Justice Department rescinded its appointment of a federal emergency police commissioner and issued a memo directing the Metropolitan Police to cooperate with federal immigration agents.
- Washington’s attorney general filed a lawsuit challenging the federal intervention as an overreach of the District’s Home Rule protections.
- Activists have held protests in Dupont Circle and other neighborhoods decrying the operation as authoritarian even as some police union leaders have voiced support.
- Republican lawmakers in Congress, led by Rep. Andy Ogles, are drafting legislation to extend or remove the 30-day limit on federal control of D.C. policing, potentially setting a precedent for other cities.