Trump’s Municipal Takeover? Huey Long Did It First

Trump’s Municipal Takeover? Huey Long Did It First

While President Donald Trump has the technical power specific to Washington, D.C. to declare an emergency and temporarily commandeer the local police force for 30 days, he has also signaled his intention to blow past that statutory limitation, as well as exert federal police power in other cities despite lacking the same emergency authority.  Is such an authoritarian power grab even possible in America? We’ve seen it before, in Huey Long’s Louis…