Trump's D.C. Takeover: Federalizing Local Police, Deploying National Guard

President Trump announced Monday that he is taking "historic action" to "take the capital back" by deploying the National Guard in Washington, D.C., and federalizing the city's police department to "re-establish law and order," and threatened the homeless population with jail time if they do not leave the city. But Monica Hopkins, executive director of the ACLU of the District of Columbia, says there are legal limitations for the federal takeover of police forces.

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