Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb (D) sued President Trump on Friday, seeking to end the federal takeover of the District's Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
The 33-page lawsuit alleges that Trump exceeded his emergency authorities by appointing Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Administrator Terry Cole as temporary police commissioner.
The lawsuit seeks to reinstall Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and Police Chief Pamela Smith at the head of the MPD.
"There is no greater risk to public safety in a large, professional police force like MPD than to not know who is in command," the lawsuit reads.
The federal takeover of the MPD can only last for 30 days, at which point Congress would have to vote to authorize an extension.
In addition to taking over the MPD, Trump dispatched more than 800 National Guard troops to join agents from other federal departments in patrolling the nation's capital to crack down on crime.
FBI Director Kash Patel said Friday that federal authorities made 18 additional arrests Thursday night.
"We're now over 120 arrests since President Trump's initiative began," Patel said. "The good cops are getting the job done."
The raids are also targeting homeless encampments, clearing them off of federal property.
In addition, Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered the end to a number of Washington, D.C., policing policies on immigration, declaring "DC's sanctuary policies no longer apply."
Bondi said the MPD would begin cooperating with federal authorities on immigration matters, although the local police force will not be allowed to make arrests based solely on a person's immigration status.
Trump's border czar Tom Homan said the administration is not asking MPD officers to directly enforce immigration laws, which are the responsibility of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
"Law enforcement needs to work with law enforcement," Homan told NewsNation, The Hill's sister network. "We're not asking Metro PD to be immigration officers, but when you're enforcing criminal law and when you find an illegal alien not only in violation of immigration law here illegally but involved with criminal activity, they absolutely should call us.
Separately, Bondi said she sent letters to 32 mayors and governors of sanctuary cities, warning them "we're going to come after you" if they don't comply with "our federal policies and with our federal law enforcement."
"They have, I think, a week to respond to me, so let's see who responds and how they respond," Bondi told a Fox News reporter.
Federal agents have been met by protests and hecklers in Washington, which is one of the most heavily concentrated regions of Democratic voters in the country.
"Donald Trump wants to impose police ice checkpoints all over D.C., and the freedom-loving people of Washington are not going to put up with that," Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said on MSNBC's "All In."
"The whole thing is absurd, and he wants to use it as the basis for taking these police state tactics across the country and the people of America," Raskin added. "The majority is not going to stand for it."
Bowser, the Democratic mayor, was briefly under fire Thursday when it was revealed she'd left town for Martha's Vineyard.
Bowser explained over social media that she was picking her 7-year old daughter up from camp, saying she'd return Friday.
The mayor said she canceled a previously scheduled family vacation "to lead our city's crisis management efforts."
"I am in constant contact with my senior team and have been in constant consultation with our partners throughout a short swing out of the District," Bowser said.
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