Also, Washington officials are reacting to Attorney General Pam Bondi's order Thursday evening designating the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration Terry Cole as "Emergency Police Commissioner" -- a role that would have him assuming assuming "all the powers and duties" vested in the Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith.

WASHINGTON — The nation’s capital sued to block President Donald Trump’s takeover of its police department in court on Friday, hours after his administration escalated its intervention into the city’s law enforcement by naming a federal official as the new emergency head of the department.