https://archive.ph/2025.08.12-131217/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/11/trump-national-guard-dc-crime-crackdown/
"Under the city’s Home Rule Act, the president can take over the D.C. police for a period of up to 30 days by declaring “special conditions of an emergency nature exist.” After that time, the police would revert to local control unless Congress passes a law to allow a longer period of federal control."
Trump orders federal takeover of D.C. police, deploys National Guard
The mayor calls the actions “unsettling and unprecedented” but says D.C. has little choice but to cooperate.
Updated today at 9:03 p.m. EDT
By Michael Birnbaum and Perry Stein
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What I don't get is why there's not a proof of emergency requirement. Like, "you have five business days to prove the existence of your emergency, otherwise it's automatically ended and can't be claimed again".
@ferricoxide@evil.social Yeah, I agree. We need to wait and see what happens with that lawsuit that started yesterday at California. The one where they're suing over the National Guard deployment. It's gonna end up before SCOTUS, and it's anybody guess how that's gonna be decided. But to your point, that's one of the things they need to look at. I honestly don't know if there's any specific definition of or criteria for a state of emergency. If there isn't, then they need to determine one. But in this writer's opinion, that definition should definitely not be left up to exactly one individual. The POTUS. Now in the case in California, I believe the government is arguing part of the rationale was to quell a rebellion. Or words to that effect. IMO, that's going to require a much stricter definition than just what defines an emergency. And therefore harder to prove in court.
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It's like the tariff thing: how's it an emergency if the problem has been going on for decades???
Emergencies are, by definition, something that's come up suddenly and recently.
....And in the case of DC, the facts say that crimes of all types are at 30yr lows (having lived here since 1993, I can attest to the improvements). So what's the provable basis for claiming an emergency?
@ferricoxide@evil.social I would just add, maybe we'll see some legal action about what he did in DC. But we haven't yet, and I tend to think, maybe we won't. I mean, I think if someone was gonna sue, it would have happened right away. That Home Rule law looks pretty solid.
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