Ted Cruz: “The Home Rule act does is it gives the President explicitly…”

“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 an emergency nature exist which require the use of the Metropolitan police force for federal purposes.” (11:43)

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