WASHINGTON — The nation’s capital sued to block President Donald Trump’s takeover of its police department in court on Friday, hours after his administration escalated its intervention into the city’s law enforcement by naming a federal official as the new emergency head of the department.

The showdown in Washington is the latest attempt by Trump to test the boundaries of his legal authority to carry out his tough-on-crime agenda, relying on obscure statutes and a supposed state of emergency to speed up the mass deportation of people in the United States illegally.

Leavitt spoke at length on "Fox and Friends" on Thursday morning about Trump's upcoming trip to Alaska. Leavitt declined to get into specifics about Trump's strategy for negotiations ahead of the meeting, but did reiterate his determination to secure a peace deal.

President Donald Trump says he may use national emergency powers to keep control of DC police beyond 30-day limit as part of crime crackdown that has led to over 100 arrests.

This is the time to decide: will we be the generation that let fascism solidify its grip on American soil, or the generation that broke it before it could break us?

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Democrats will fight President Trump tooth and nail if he wants to keep the National Guard in Washington, D.C. longer than permitted. The president deployed the guard to deal with crime in the nation's capital.

President Donald Trump said he may declare a national emergency in Washington, D.C. if Congress doesn't renew his control over the city's police department.

A federal judge has temporarily halted the Trump administration's plan to reallocate more than $4 billion in federal disaster preparedness funds, marking a legal victory for 20 states that challenged the move.

Meanwhile, Americans are increasingly disturbed by Trump’s handling of the entire fiasco. A poll published by Emerson College Polling in July found that just 16 percent of Americans approved of the way Trump was managing the Epstein scandal, while more than half of polled Americans—51 percent—disapproved.