Trump is jockeying for local political power by positioning himself as the antidote to the city’s crime and homelessness.

Backed by the muscle of a new law, D.C.’s attorney general is suing out-of-state drivers who have refused to pay tens of thousands of dollars in fines from speed and red light cameras. For years, out-of-state drivers have known they can wrack up ticket after ticket in the District and no one had the authority to make them pay.