… guard from the President to the Secretary of Defense, who further delegates it to the Secretary of the Army. So there's explicit authority to authorize the National Guard. And Also Congress in 1973 passed a law called the Home Rule Act. And what the Home Rule act does is it gives the President explicitly the power to take control of the D.C. police, quote, whenever he determines that special conditions of … (11:38–11:44)
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References the passage of the Home Rule Act by Congress in 1973.
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