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President Donald Trump On Monday, he announced that his administration would take over the Colombian police district, as well as deploy 800 soldiers of the National Guard and new federal law enforcement units in the country’s capital.
“This is the day of liberation to DC, and we are going to return our capital back,” Trump said at the White House press conference, founded by Defense Minister Pitt Hugset, Prosecutor General Bondi and other senior administration officials. “It will be a model. And then we will also look at other cities. But other cities study what we do,” Trump said. “We will have a safe, beautiful capital, and it will happen very soon.”
Democratic leaders responded with their usual eloquence. “A violent crime in Washington, Colombia District, is on a thirty -year minimum. Donald Trump has no reason to take on a local police department. And zero authority in law and order. Get lost,” the minority leader Hackie Jeffre, Dn.Y.
Repeating the same conversation as many other chosen Democrats, a former speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy PelosiD-Calif., Asked Trump, comparing it with its delay calling the National Guard to go on January 6, 2021, attack the Capitol.
Despite the democratic complaints, few people must question the need for greater public safety in the domestic cities of our country. But in our federal system of crime remains the entry of states. “Regulation and punishment of domestic violence … There has always been the province of states”, Supreme observed in United States against Morrison (2000). As the Great Judge John Marshal Centuries announced, Congress “has no common right to punish a murder committed in any of the states,” and “understanding (that) Congress cannot punish crimes at all.”
Criminal justice sits at the very basis of the state police – their general right to regulate people and activities within their borders – except for specific, narrow areas (for example, regulation of interstate trade) delegated by the Federal Government Constitution.
All laws in the Colombia county are federal laws. If the mayor and city authorities allow you to increase crimes, especially because of the soft laws and policies against violators, the president must intervene.
But this is not the case with Washington, the Constitution specifically creates District Colombia As a city outside the power of any state. As explained by James Madison Federalist No. 43“Government’s place” should only come under the authority of the nation. Otherwise, he warned: “The state power can be insulted, and its proceedings are interrupted by impunity,” and the state where the capital resided, “can bring the National Council to bring fear and influence equally dishonest to the government and dissatisfaction with others (the state).” Farmers wanted the national government located in the city not under any guerrilla control.
But in 1973 the Congress passed the Law on the Rules of the House (with the president Richard Nixon Support) that created the mayor, city council and some limited self -government rights.
It was a constitutional mistake.
According to the Constitution, there is no real local self -government in Colombia; The whole city is only a division of the national government. The Trump’s premises in the DC police and its deployment of troops and federal law enforcement agencies do not interfere with any local self -government rights, because, unlike the case with the deployment of troops in the Los, the state’s sovereignty should not be paid.
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The President does not require the state’s permission to deploy US troops and federal law enforcement agencies to defend federal property, facilities and staff.
Even if the DC’s home rule was not contrary to Farmery’s design for the single federal city in the country, Trump will still have the powers to take action on Monday. The President is obliged to ensure public security at DC under Article II ConstitutionThe president is obliged to “take care that the laws be faithful.”
According to the Constitution, there is no real local self -government in Colombia; The whole city is only a division of the national government. (Istock)
All laws in the Colombia county are federal laws. If the mayor and city authorities allow you to increase crimes, especially because of the soft laws and policies against violators, the president must intervene. It is constitutional responsibility for restoring the methods of legal enforcement agencies that will protect those who work and live in Washington.
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The law on the rules of the house of 1973, even if it is constitutional, recognizes the powers of the president. This allows him to take the police permanent current for 30 days in the event of an emergency. The president could announce a large number of murders – there was always one of the highest levels of murder of the country, and is currently in the fourth largest emergency. While the murders in 2024 fell, they descended from the pandemic; The murders in DC are still much higher than the low 2012. In any case, the provision of the Law on the Rules of the House only extends to the DC police; Law does not – and cannot – restrict the powers of the president to post troops either FBI to protect the federal city.
President Trump’s decision to resume The law and order In the District of Colombia, only the first step. It can take the necessary second step by collaborating with Congress to complete the home management and restore control over the elected branches of the government over the district.
Just as he claimed his control over the bureaucracy, dropping the heads of agencies, he could check the constitutional waters by removing the mayor and other DC officials. They are also only assistants to the president who helps him fulfill his responsibility for the fulfillment of the federal law; If they do not execute, it can and should replace them.
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Half a century ago, Congress and the President gave a misconception that DC residents had a democratic right to govern their affairs. But the Farmers did not want the DC to get under whose guerrilla control, especially those who would use their control over the county to influence the federal government itself (recall the persecution of Trump officials who passed unpunished during its first term).
Trump and Congress Admittedly, the home rule failed and started doing a DC large federal city.
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