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Tracking Trump: – The Washington Post

Members of the National Guard are deployed at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday. (Craig Hudson / For The Washington Post)
The 7

Tracking Trump: D.C. mayor’s National Guard order; a judge rules against Trump’s L.A. deployment; Trump attacks Chicago; and more

The 7 follows President Donald Trump’s second term, Today at 5:32 p.m. EDT

By Alec Dent

1

D.C. mayor orders indefinite cooperation with federal law enforcement.

Members of the National Guard are deployed at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday. (Craig Hudson / For The Washington Post)

• Today: Washington Mayor Muriel E. Bowser issued an executive order requiring local police coordination with federal law-enforcement officials. There is no expiration date.
• Context: President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to D.C. has a 30-day limit, but he has indicated he will seek to extend the deployment.

2

A judge ruled that Trump’s L.A. troop deployment was illegal.

• The latest: District Judge Charles R. Breyer ruled that Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles this summer violated a law banning them from engaging in domestic law enforcement activities.

• Why: Breyer wrote that federal officials “knew that they were ordering troops to execute domestic law beyond their usual authority.”

3

Trump amped up anti-Chicago rhetoric.

• What he said: “Chicago is the worst and most dangerous city in the World, by far,” Trump wrote in a social media post. “I will solve the crime problem fast, just like I did in DC.”

• Why it matters: After he sent troops to D.C., Trump said Chicago would see a National Guard deployment “probably next.”

4

Trump’s nominee to lead BLS discussed gender IQ with interns.

• New: While at the Heritage Foundation last year, E.J. Antoni told interns about a controversial IQ theory that says there are more women of “average” intelligence than men.

• Context: Trump nominated Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics after firing its previous head for releasing a negative jobs report.

5

Trump announced the Space Command HQ will move from Colorado to Alabama.

• What to know: Space Command, which oversees space military operations, has been in Colorado Springs since 2019, but will now move to Huntsville, Alabama.

Background: Trump reestablished the Space Command in 2019. An initial plan to move it from its interim HQ in Colorado to Alabama was scrapped by President Joe Biden in 2023.

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L.A. Ruling Complicates Trump’s Threats to Send Troops to More Cities – The New York Times

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L.A. Ruling Complicates Trump’s Threats to Send Troops to More Cities

As Democratic cities brace for possible military deployments, Democratic governors see in a lower-court ruling the potential for legal protections.

Listen to this article · 7:42 min Learn more Members of the California National Guard outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles in June.Credit…Philip Cheung for The New York Times

By Charlie Savage, Reporting from Washington, D.C., Sept. 2, 2025Updated 4:16 p.m. ET

A federal judge’s ruling that President Trump has been using troops illegally to perform law enforcement functions in Los Angeles will — if it stands — pose impediments to any plans Mr. Trump may have for sending the military into the streets of other cities, like Chicago.

Mr. Trump has made those threats in the context of his anti-crime operation in Washington, D.C., which has involved both civilian federal agents and National Guard troops under federal control. But because the District of Columbia is not a state, the federal government has greater latitude to use the Guard there.

The Posse Comitatus Act, enacted in 1878, makes it illegal to use federal troops for domestic policing under normal circumstances. So to keep from running afoul of that law, Mr. Trump would need a legal rationale for deploying troops to cities like Chicago.

One potential model for Mr. Trump might be the reasoning his administration offered for sending troops to Los Angeles over the summer, ostensibly to protect federal agents and facilities. But on Tuesday, Judge Charles Breyer of the Federal District Court in San Francisco held that the administration has been using those troops too expansively.

The judge barred the federal government from using troops anywhere in California to engage in “arrests, apprehensions, searches, seizures, security patrols, traffic control, crowd control, riot control, evidence collection, interrogation, or acting as informants.”

Speaking to reporters later on Tuesday, Mr. Trump called Judge Breyer a “radical left judge.” The judge’s order is scheduled to take effect Sept. 12, giving the Trump administration time to appeal.

There are reasons for caution at this stage. An appeals court has already overturned an earlier decision by Judge Breyer, in which he tried to strike down Mr. Trump’s assertion of federal control of California National Guard troops over the objections of the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom.

But if other courts adopt Judge Breyer’s reasoning, it would limit Mr. Trump’s ability to use the operation in Los Angeles as a precedent to justify deploying federal troops into other cities to fight crime.

Democratic governors far from California said on Tuesday that the judge’s ruling was a victory for them as well.

“This ruling confirms what the American people already knew — this deployment was never about public safety,” said Gov. Maura Healey of Massachusetts, who has spoken out against Mr. Trump’s domestic use of the military. “It was yet another political stunt from President Trump intended to intimidate and punish anyone who disagrees with him.”

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Trump Is Taking Over D.C. Police Because He’s a Racist Thug | The New Republic

Melissa Gira Grant/

August 12, 2025

Trump Is Taking Over D.C. Police Because He’s a Racist Thug

Trump doesn’t care about “crime.” He cares about the right white people being in charge.

Yasin Ozturk / Anadolu/Getty Images Flanked by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi, Donald Trump delivers a speech during a press conference at the White House, on August 11.

It’s still possible, despite my daily exposure to horrific announcements from the Trump administration, for a White House press conference to make me sick with dread. On August 11, the president announced that he was taking federal control of the police force in Washington, D.C., and deploying the National Guard to its streets. As has become routine, Trump attempted to give legitimacy to his entirely gratuitous actions with executive orders, one declaring a nonexistent “crime emergency” in Washington, the other “restoring law and order” by directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to activate the D.C. National Guard. As Trump’s press conference meandered on, various Cabinet members peppered their remarks with praise—that Trump is “saving” the city, etc. Some blocks away, at Lafayette Square, residents of our nation’s capital protested the coming occupation of the district. “While this action today is unsettling and unprecedented,” said D.C. Mayor Murial Bowser, “I can’t say that given some of the rhetoric of the past … we’re totally surprised.”

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Trump Is Taking Over D.C. Police Because He’s a Racist Thug | The New Republic

Melissa Gira Grant/

August 12, 2025

Trump Is Taking Over D.C. Police Because He’s a Racist Thug

Trump doesn’t care about “crime.” He cares about the right white people being in charge.

Yasin Ozturk / Anadolu/Getty Images Flanked by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi, Donald Trump delivers a speech during a press conference at the White House, on August 11.

It’s still possible, despite my daily exposure to horrific announcements from the Trump administration, for a White House press conference to make me sick with dread. On August 11, the president announced that he was taking federal control of the police force in Washington, D.C., and deploying the National Guard to its streets. As has become routine, Trump attempted to give legitimacy to his entirely gratuitous actions with executive orders, one declaring a nonexistent “crime emergency” in Washington, the other “restoring law and order” by directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to activate the D.C. National Guard. As Trump’s press conference meandered on, various Cabinet members peppered their remarks with praise—that Trump is “saving” the city, etc. Some blocks away, at Lafayette Square, residents of our nation’s capital protested the coming occupation of the district. “While this action today is unsettling and unprecedented,” said D.C. Mayor Murial Bowser, “I can’t say that given some of the rhetoric of the past … we’re totally surprised.”

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Don’t federalize and militarize DC’s local police – GovTrack.us

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Don’t federalize and militarize DC’s local police

Aug. 11, 2025 · by Joshua Tauberer

When I walk my toddler home from daycare every evening, it is safe. That’s here in Washington, D.C., where I have lived since I moved to work on government accountability 15 years ago.

For perhaps the next 30 days, or longer, District of Columbia residents will be policed by federalized civilian and military officers, per an executive order and presidential memorandum this morning. The executive order directs the police to be federalized to protect “national monuments” (which are in the safest parts of D.C. thanks to the existing park police) and other federal properties, but the memorandum directs the DC National Guard to address crime throughout the capital.

There is no crime emergency here. I live here. I have seen things get better, not worse, with my own eyes. Violent crime is the lowest it has been in 30 years. Overall crime is down this year already. According to 2019 data, crime is worse in Houston and Indianapolis than here in D.C. Like all places, we have crime. I have seen that too. But not more than most.

D.C. is not just the capital district. It is one of the largest cities in the country. It’s a great city. I love living here. 700,000 people live in D.C. — that’s more than two whole states, Vermont and Wyoming. District residents paid $45 billion in federal taxes in 2024 — that’s more than North Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming, Alaska, and Vermont combined (and more than 21 other states individually).

How many votes do we have in Congress? None. We don’t have any say in the federal laws that bind us. But that’s not all. Arrests are already prosecuted by federal lawyers, not lawyers that work for the elected DC Attorney General. They enforce local laws that the District’s Council has been blocked by Congress from updating.

There is a lot of taxation here and not a lot of representation.

Instead, politicians from far away cities with crime worse than ours use us for their own gain.

It’s not enough that federal police officers already police many of the parks here (many of which are national parks), the area around the Capitol (which has its own federal police force), and White House grounds (which has the Secret Service). Now it might be our neighborhoods too. It will not make our communities safer, and it defies the American spirit of a government accountable to its people.

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Don’t federalize and militarize DC’s local police – GovTrack.us

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Don’t federalize and militarize DC’s local police

Aug. 11, 2025 · by Joshua Tauberer

When I walk my toddler home from daycare every evening, it is safe. That’s here in Washington, D.C., where I have lived since I moved to work on government accountability 15 years ago.

For perhaps the next 30 days, or longer, District of Columbia residents will be policed by federalized civilian and military officers, per an executive order and presidential memorandum this morning. The executive order directs the police to be federalized to protect “national monuments” (which are in the safest parts of D.C. thanks to the existing park police) and other federal properties, but the memorandum directs the DC National Guard to address crime throughout the capital.

There is no crime emergency here. I live here. I have seen things get better, not worse, with my own eyes. Violent crime is the lowest it has been in 30 years. Overall crime is down this year already. According to 2019 data, crime is worse in Houston and Indianapolis than here in D.C. Like all places, we have crime. I have seen that too. But not more than most.

D.C. is not just the capital district. It is one of the largest cities in the country. It’s a great city. I love living here. 700,000 people live in D.C. — that’s more than two whole states, Vermont and Wyoming. District residents paid $45 billion in federal taxes in 2024 — that’s more than North Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming, Alaska, and Vermont combined (and more than 21 other states individually).

How many votes do we have in Congress? None. We don’t have any say in the federal laws that bind us. But that’s not all. Arrests are already prosecuted by federal lawyers, not lawyers that work for the elected DC Attorney General. They enforce local laws that the District’s Council has been blocked by Congress from updating.

There is a lot of taxation here and not a lot of representation.

Instead, politicians from far away cities with crime worse than ours use us for their own gain.

It’s not enough that federal police officers already police many of the parks here (many of which are national parks), the area around the Capitol (which has its own federal police force), and White House grounds (which has the Secret Service). Now it might be our neighborhoods too. It will not make our communities safer, and it defies the American spirit of a government accountable to its people.

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Don’t federalize and militarize DC’s local police – GovTrack.us

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Don’t federalize and militarize DC’s local police

Aug. 11, 2025 · by Joshua Tauberer

When I walk my toddler home from daycare every evening, it is safe. That’s here in Washington, D.C., where I have lived since I moved to work on government accountability 15 years ago.

For perhaps the next 30 days, or longer, District of Columbia residents will be policed by federalized civilian and military officers, per an executive order and presidential memorandum this morning. The executive order directs the police to be federalized to protect “national monuments” (which are in the safest parts of D.C. thanks to the existing park police) and other federal properties, but the memorandum directs the DC National Guard to address crime throughout the capital.

There is no crime emergency here. I live here. I have seen things get better, not worse, with my own eyes. Violent crime is the lowest it has been in 30 years. Overall crime is down this year already. According to 2019 data, crime is worse in Houston and Indianapolis than here in D.C. Like all places, we have crime. I have seen that too. But not more than most.

D.C. is not just the capital district. It is one of the largest cities in the country. It’s a great city. I love living here. 700,000 people live in D.C. — that’s more than two whole states, Vermont and Wyoming. District residents paid $45 billion in federal taxes in 2024 — that’s more than North Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming, Alaska, and Vermont combined (and more than 21 other states individually).

How many votes do we have in Congress? None. We don’t have any say in the federal laws that bind us. But that’s not all. Arrests are already prosecuted by federal lawyers, not lawyers that work for the elected DC Attorney General. They enforce local laws that the District’s Council has been blocked by Congress from updating.

There is a lot of taxation here and not a lot of representation.

Instead, politicians from far away cities with crime worse than ours use us for their own gain.

It’s not enough that federal police officers already police many of the parks here (many of which are national parks), the area around the Capitol (which has its own federal police force), and White House grounds (which has the Secret Service). Now it might be our neighborhoods too. It will not make our communities safer, and it defies the American spirit of a government accountable to its people.

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Don’t federalize and militarize DC’s local police – GovTrack.us

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Don’t federalize and militarize DC’s local police

Aug. 11, 2025 · by Joshua Tauberer

When I walk my toddler home from daycare every evening, it is safe. That’s here in Washington, D.C., where I have lived since I moved to work on government accountability 15 years ago.

For perhaps the next 30 days, or longer, District of Columbia residents will be policed by federalized civilian and military officers, per an executive order and presidential memorandum this morning. The executive order directs the police to be federalized to protect “national monuments” (which are in the safest parts of D.C. thanks to the existing park police) and other federal properties, but the memorandum directs the DC National Guard to address crime throughout the capital.

There is no crime emergency here. I live here. I have seen things get better, not worse, with my own eyes. Violent crime is the lowest it has been in 30 years. Overall crime is down this year already. According to 2019 data, crime is worse in Houston and Indianapolis than here in D.C. Like all places, we have crime. I have seen that too. But not more than most.

D.C. is not just the capital district. It is one of the largest cities in the country. It’s a great city. I love living here. 700,000 people live in D.C. — that’s more than two whole states, Vermont and Wyoming. District residents paid $45 billion in federal taxes in 2024 — that’s more than North Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming, Alaska, and Vermont combined (and more than 21 other states individually).

How many votes do we have in Congress? None. We don’t have any say in the federal laws that bind us. But that’s not all. Arrests are already prosecuted by federal lawyers, not lawyers that work for the elected DC Attorney General. They enforce local laws that the District’s Council has been blocked by Congress from updating.

There is a lot of taxation here and not a lot of representation.

Instead, politicians from far away cities with crime worse than ours use us for their own gain.

It’s not enough that federal police officers already police many of the parks here (many of which are national parks), the area around the Capitol (which has its own federal police force), and White House grounds (which has the Secret Service). Now it might be our neighborhoods too. It will not make our communities safer, and it defies the American spirit of a government accountable to its people.

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Don’t federalize and militarize DC’s local police – GovTrack.us

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2. The White House

Don’t federalize and militarize DC’s local police

Aug. 11, 2025 · by Joshua Tauberer

When I walk my toddler home from daycare every evening, it is safe. That’s here in Washington, D.C., where I have lived since I moved to work on government accountability 15 years ago.

For perhaps the next 30 days, or longer, District of Columbia residents will be policed by federalized civilian and military officers, per an executive order and presidential memorandum this morning. The executive order directs the police to be federalized to protect “national monuments” (which are in the safest parts of D.C. thanks to the existing park police) and other federal properties, but the memorandum directs the DC National Guard to address crime throughout the capital.

There is no crime emergency here. I live here. I have seen things get better, not worse, with my own eyes. Violent crime is the lowest it has been in 30 years. Overall crime is down this year already. According to 2019 data, crime is worse in Houston and Indianapolis than here in D.C. Like all places, we have crime. I have seen that too. But not more than most.

D.C. is not just the capital district. It is one of the largest cities in the country. It’s a great city. I love living here. 700,000 people live in D.C. — that’s more than two whole states, Vermont and Wyoming. District residents paid $45 billion in federal taxes in 2024 — that’s more than North Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming, Alaska, and Vermont combined (and more than 21 other states individually).

How many votes do we have in Congress? None. We don’t have any say in the federal laws that bind us. But that’s not all. Arrests are already prosecuted by federal lawyers, not lawyers that work for the elected DC Attorney General. They enforce local laws that the District’s Council has been blocked by Congress from updating.

There is a lot of taxation here and not a lot of representation.

Instead, politicians from far away cities with crime worse than ours use us for their own gain.

It’s not enough that federal police officers already police many of the parks here (many of which are national parks), the area around the Capitol (which has its own federal police force), and White House grounds (which has the Secret Service). Now it might be our neighborhoods too. It will not make our communities safer, and it defies the American spirit of a government accountable to its people.

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Civil Discourse – When The President Becomes The Police – Joyce Vance

By Joyce Vance, Aug 11, 2025

The Posse Comitatus Act reserves the police power to the states, prohibiting the federal government from using the military for domestic law enforcement absent truly compelling circumstances. This principle can be extended to the National Guard when a president federalizes a state’s troops. That’s the very issue that Judge Charles Breyer is considering in Newsom v. Trump this week: whether Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles crossed the line into domestic law enforcement.

But when Donald Trump declared a public safety emergency in Washington, D.C. this morning, taking control of the Metropolitan Police and announcing his intent to bring the National Guard in to help, the rules that apply everywhere else were not in play. The situation in Washington is unique, and it’s important for us to understand what it is and what it isn’t.

It’s deeply concerning that Trump’s predication for seizing control in the District—allegedly out of control crime—are a lie. I shared the statistics with you last night, which show that crime is actually decreasing in the District of Columbia. But because the D.C. Home Rule Act allows the president to take control of the Metropolitan Police Department for 30 days in an emergency, and because the law doesn’t carefully define what qualifies as an emergency, Trump will likely get his 30 days. That conclusion was reinforced during D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s press conference, where she called Trump’s federal takeover of the D.C. police department “unsettling and unprecedented,” but did not threaten to sue. City officials have likely looked at the law and concluded Trump has enough room under the vague rule to get away with using false pretenses to take over the police.

From article…

Time and again, Trump shows his willingness to grab and abuse power, and each instance makes the next more likely. But if he wants to seize control of law enforcement in other cities, he will have to use different legal authorities, such as the Insurrection Act, which, so far, has apparently been too politically fraught. Existing rules made it easier for Trump to act in Washington than in other cities, and this playbook cannot be readily duplicated elsewhere. In other words, as bad as this is, there’s a silver lining.

Here’s the legal landscape that permits Trump to control the police and the Guard:

Police: § 1-207.40 of the Code of the District of Columbia allows a president to take control of the Metropolitan Police Force for federal purposes in an emergency. To keep control for more than 48 hours, he must notify the chair and the ranking member of the Committees on the District of Columbia in Congress. Trump has already done this. That means he can hold onto control for 30 days, but no longer, unless Congress authorizes it. If you tuned into

Steve Vladeck’s and my Substack Live conversation tonight, you know that we both believe congressional Democrats could filibuster to prevent that from happening.

So why do it if it’s only for 30 days? Perhaps Trump is indeed looking to push the boundaries of presidential power even further than he has before. Or perhaps he’s hoping 30 days will be enough to distract the public from his Jeffrey Epstein problem. Either way, Attorney General Pam Bondi is running the police for 30 days, and we’ll be watching.

D.C. National Guard: Unlike state national guards, the D.C. Guard falls under the president’s purview, so he has no need to federalize it like he did in California to deploy troops for federal purposes. DOJ has historically taken the position that the D.C. National Guard’s unique status means it is “non-federal,” and is not subject to the Posse Comitatus Act, which leaves Trump free to use it for direct law enforcement purposes inside of the city. The Guard in D.C. is relatively small compared to state forces. In California, Trump ultimately federalized about 4,000 troops. In all of D.C., there are fewer than 2500 soldiers and airmen in total.

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