Earlier Friday, the nation's capital filed a lawsuit to block Republican President Donald Trump's takeover of its police department.

The president has more power over the nation’s capital than other cities, but D.C. has elected its mayor and city council since the Home Rule Act was signed in 1973.

Brian Schwalb, the attorney general for the District of Columbia, filed a lawsuit in federal court in Washington on Friday morning challenging the Trump administration’s unprecedented takeover of the ...