The development came after Washington, D.C.'s attorney general filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's takeover of the Metropolitan Police Department.

Washington is seeking an emergency restraining order to block President Donald Trump’s takeover of its police department.

Earlier Friday, the nation's capital filed a lawsuit to block Republican President Donald Trump's takeover of its police department.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has announced that DEA Administrator Terrence Cole will temporarily serve as the chief of Washington, D.C.'s police department.

A federal judge persuaded the Department of Justice to give up on Donald Trump’s effort to take over command of the Washington, D.C. police department. The court did not issue a ruling but forced an agreement to keep D.

The move followed Attorney General Pam Bondi's announcement that DEA chief Terry Cole would assume the duties of police chief.

The memo from Attorney General Brian Schwalb argues that Bondi’s order hours earlier naming an “emergency police commissioner” and vacating district rules limiting local police cooperation with immigration authorities could not be followed by the city’s police force.

Lawsuit challenges Trump's executive order federalizing D.C. police and Bondi's installation of DEA head as emergency police commissioner as unlawful.