Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee, held a hearing on Friday to consider DC’s emergency bid to block President Trump’s federal takeover of DC’s police department.
On Thursday evening, US Attorney General Pam Bondi named the head of the DEA as DC’s “emergency police commissioner” which will “grant him powers of a police chief,” AP reported.
Bondi’s decision to name Terry Cole as DC’s emergency police commissioner comes as President Trump federalized DC to quell the violence.
Judge Reyes scolded Justice Department lawyers for misspelling Terry Cole’s name as she ordered the DOJ to walk back its directive that made the DEA Chief in charge of the DC police.
DOJ lawyers agreed that Terry Cole is NOT going to be the emergency police commissioner after Judge Reyes threatened to issue restraining order.
ALERT: After court hearing and lengthy meeting at courthouse, Justice Dept agrees Terry Cole is NOT going to be the emergency police commissioner in DC, but instead will be the intermediary between the White House and MPD during the Trump admin. takeover of DC police
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) August 15, 2025
For now.. Washington, D.C.’s police chief remains the police chief
And … a Trump Administration attorney acknowledged to the judge late today that the Administration is indeed aware that its takeover of DC police must end after 30 days, unless Congress approves extension
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) August 15, 2025
CNN reported:
The Justice Department has until 6:30 p.m. to revamp an order that placed the DEA administrator in charge of DC police, or a federal judge will issue a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration.
Judge Ana Reyes ordered DOJ to rewrite the section of the executive order issued Thursday by Attorney General Pam Bondi that sought to take control of DC police by placing Terrance Cole in charge under President Donald Trump’s crime emergency declaration.
The change would direct Cole to issue directives through Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office, rather than directly to Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith.
“He’s going to have to go through the Mayor,” Reyes said after attorneys for the Justice Department and the DC attorney general said they needed 45 minutes to re-write that part of Bondi’s order.
This week DC’s Police Chief Pamela Smith stunned the public when she appeared confused after a reporter asked her about the chain of command.
“What does that mean?” Pamela Smith asked the reporter as Mayor Muriel Bowser swooped in and took over the mic.
WATCH:
I’ve never known of any police chief who doesn’t know what “chain of command” means
Maybe the first piece of cleaning up crime in DC is to reform hiring practices
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— Phil Holloway
(@PhilHollowayEsq) August 12, 2025
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