On the Friday before Mother’s Day, #LaMonica #McIver,
a first-term Democratic congresswoman from New Jersey,
spent the morning handing out roses in the maternity ward of a hospital in Newark.

Her next stop, a visit to #Delaney #Hall, a federal immigration jail in her district,
promised to be a more sombre affair, but she was “on a high note,” McIver told me.

“We thought it would be a smooth day.”
Now she faces seventeen years in prison.

A federal grand jury has indicted Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., on three criminal counts, after the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey alleged that she broke the law when Congress members' visit to an immigration detention facility ended in a physical altercation.

"McIver forcibly impeded and interfered with federal officers
as they attempted to arrest" Newark Mayor #Ras #Baraka
outside the Delaney Hall Federal Immigration Facility in Newark, N.J.,
on May 9,
the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

The indictment lists three counts of
"assaulting, resisting, impeding and interfering"
with federal officers,
with a potential prison sentence if McIver is convicted.

The indictment was announced by interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey #Alina #Habba, Trump's former personal attorney
who briefly served as counselor to the president before being named to the federal prosecutor post in March.

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/11/g-s1-72175/mciver-indicted-federal-charges-immigration-new-jersey

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01/26/lamonica-mciver-congress-ice-jail-visit-felony-charges?currentPage=all

#Trump pick Alina #Habba disqualified as N.J. top prosecutor, appeals court says

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/01/trump-alina-habba-disqualified-appeals-court.html?__source=androidappshare

Like the contents of her cranium.

https://mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper/115068619739794602

#MAGA #fascism #Habba

"#Habba’s reappointment violated federal law because the fact that #Trump submitted Habba’s nomination to the Senate prevents her from serving in an acting capacity, regardless of whether Trump subsequently withdrew her nomination or not. He argued that being prosecuted by an unauthorized U.S. attorney undermines his due process rights,"

MSNBC "https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/alina-habba-us-attorney-julien-giraud-lawsuit-rcna221696
#USPolitics #TrumpRegime

Alina Habba's selection to replace her (a Republican) was fired *illegally* by the DOJ'S AG Pam Bondi, who's chartered w/ upholding the law?

What am I missing?

▶️ #DOJ fires newly appointed US attorney in NJ after judges vote against keeping #Habba in role - CNN
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7DaNcHTPXKA&si=PbBTa0LK6aAKafm0
#trump

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/05/lamonica-mciver-charged-justice-department/682864/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxX9kdA2YiTSgORe70HZMPrU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

I was wrong about this. DOJ dropped charge against Newark mayor, but charged a House rep.

#HakeemJeffries said this was a “red line”. It’s clearly a trumped up charge, intimidation tactic. #trump admin is weaponizing the federal government against the opposing party.

If a couple of these balloons fly, we’re in Turkey or Hungary, where rights on paper and rights in reality are different. No north, no gravity, other than leader’s whim.

#uspol #habba