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Marina Dunbar

Democrats introduce joint resolution to end Trump’s ‘lawless’ DC takeover

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Members of the national guard stand near Union Station in Washington DC on Thursday. Photograph: Mehmet Eser/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

Democratic lawmakers have introduced a joint resolution aimed at ending what they call Trump’s unlawful and unprecedented move to federalize the Metropolitan police department (MPD) in Washington DC.

Representative Jamie Raskin, the ranking member of the House judiciary committee; DC’s non-voting House delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton; and representative Robert Garcia, ranking member of the House committee on oversight and government reform, introduced the resolution on Friday, invoking the District of Columbia Home Rule Act of 1973.

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