Attorney General Pam Bondi issued an order Thursday that amounted to a reversal of "sanctuary" policies in D.C. The District sued over the order Friday.

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.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration as Washington’s “emergency police commissioner,” saying she is granting him the powers of the police chief amid President Donald Trump’s takeover.

The move amounts to a sweeping reversal of "sanctuary" policies in the nation's capital, allowing the Metropolitan Police Department, for the time being, to fully cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

In a strongly worded letter, the country’s chief law enforcement officer gave the governor an Aug. 19 deadline to respond.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser pushed back on the order, saying "there is no statute that conveys the District’s personnel authority to a federal official."

The back-and-forth with the Trump administration over what is a so-called sanctuary state has revved up again as Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed in a letter to state officials that Connecticut is violating federal laws on immigration. "This ends now," Attorney General Pamela Bondi wrote this week, threatening the potential for civil fines.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday she was ramping up pressure on 32 “sanctuary jurisdictions,” urging them to comply with federal immigration enforcement efforts. “I just sent Sanctuary