Choose Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee, held a listening to on Friday to think about DC’s emergency bid to dam President Trump’s federal takeover of DC’s police division.
On Thursday night, US Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi named the top of the DEA as DC’s “emergency police commissioner” which can “grant him powers of a police chief,” AP reported.
Bondi’s determination to call Terry Cole as DC’s emergency police commissioner comes as President Trump federalized DC to quell the violence.
Choose Reyes scolded Justice Division legal professionals for misspelling Terry Cole’s title as she ordered the DOJ to stroll again its directive that made the DEA Chief accountable for the DC police.
DOJ legal professionals agreed that Terry Cole is NOT going to be the emergency police commissioner after Choose Reyes threatened to difficulty restraining order.
ALERT: After court docket listening to and prolonged assembly at courthouse, Justice Dept agrees Terry Cole is NOT going to be the emergency police commissioner in DC, however as a substitute would be the middleman between the White Home and MPD in the course of the Trump admin. takeover of DC police
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) August 15, 2025
For now.. Washington, D.C.’s police chief stays the police chief
And … a Trump Administration legal professional acknowledged to the decide late at present that the Administration is certainly conscious that its takeover of DC police should finish after 30 days, until Congress approves extension
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) August 15, 2025
CNN reported:
The Justice Division has till 6:30 p.m. to revamp an order that positioned the DEA administrator accountable for DC police, or a federal decide will difficulty a short lived restraining order in opposition to the Trump administration.
Choose Ana Reyes ordered DOJ to rewrite the part of the manager order issued Thursday by Legal professional Normal Pam Bondi that sought to take management of DC police by putting Terrance Cole in cost beneath President Donald Trump’s crime emergency declaration.
The change would direct Cole to difficulty directives via Mayor Muriel Bowser’s workplace, moderately than on to Metropolitan Police Division Chief Pamela Smith.
“He’s going to need to undergo the Mayor,” Reyes mentioned after attorneys for the Justice Division and the DC legal professional normal mentioned they wanted 45 minutes to re-write that a part of Bondi’s order.
This week DC’s Police Chief Pamela Smith shocked the general public when she appeared confused after a reporter requested her in regards to the chain of command.
“What does that imply?” Pamela Smith requested the reporter as Mayor Muriel Bowser swooped in and took over the mic.
This dim girl continues to be accountable for DC’s police due to Choose Reyes.
WATCH:
I’ve by no means recognized of any police chief who doesn’t know what “chain of command” means
Possibly the primary piece of cleansing up crime in DC is to reform hiring practices
— Phil Holloway ✈️ (@PhilHollowayEsq) August 12, 2025
