Rep #LaMonicaMcIver Stands Against DOJ targeting at Oral Arguments
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Rep. #LaMonicaMcIver faces 17 years on bogus unconstitutional bullshit from the Drumpf admin
Where's the #alternativepress and #progressiveindependentpress abt this story?
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Karoline Leavitt names and shames Democrats who inspired WHCD assassination attempt
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#DonLemon (#LosAngeles) and #GeorgiaFort (#Minneapolis) arrested after #MN church protest: What we know
#CNN 25 minutes ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P1m0S7VvO5k
#BatshitBondi #ImprisonPamBondi
Question: #GeorgiaFort, #DonLemmon, Rep. #LaMonicaMcIver, Atty #LeviArmstrong, Rep #NicoleCollier are all.... (fill in the blank, everyone)
There's a reason people don't watch CNN, when this Seltzer person bangs on about protest in a church instead of squarely focusing on the violation of the 1st Amendment
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Rep. #LaMonicaMcIver Faces 17 Years in Prison over #ICE Jail Inspection
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@meidastouch.com host @meiselasb.bsky.social reports on #NewJersey voters resisting Trump’s threats and Meiselas speaks with New Jersey hero Congresswoman #LaMonicaMcIver about Trump’s vindictive prosecution against her and others. youtu.be/qQsMQcfVXxg?...
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Judge questions whether #NewJersey Rep #LaMonicaMcIver was illegally targeted by #Trump admin
McIver attorney Paul Fishman argued McIver was prosecuted because she was a #Democrat, meanwhile Trump gave #pardons to hundreds of people who attacked police at the Capitol on #Jan6, 2021, & the #DOJ dropped numerous additional assault cases at Trump’s direction, despite video evidence of the attacks.
#law #LegalEthics #RevengePolitics
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#MeidasTouch host Meiselas reports on how the #GOP attempt to censure Congresswoman #LaMonicaMcIver blew up in their faces and how #CongresswomanMcIver is FIGHTING BACK against Trump AND the corrupt #DOJ and how she is standing up for the rights of us ALL and for DEMOCRACY youtu.be/sJVaUsysa4g?...
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#MeidasTouch host Meiselas reports on how the #GOP attempt to censure Congresswoman #LaMonicaMcIver blew up in their faces and how #CongresswomanMcIver is FIGHTING BACK against Trump AND the corrupt #DOJ and how she is standing up for the rights of us ALL and for DEMOCRACY youtu.be/sJVaUsysa4g?...
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#Democratic Rep. #LaMonicaMcIver of #NewJersey fought to dismiss her criminal case with a vindictive prosecution by comparing the Trump Justice Department's handling of her case with that of hundreds of pardoned, violent Jan. 6 rioters. McIver's case remains pending. youtu.be/ErH2T40hQOg?...
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#NeverForgetNeverForgive them attacking #LaMonicaMcIver the way they have been.
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#ICE entered into a $1B contract w/the #GEOGroup to operate the facility, which began housing detainees last month. Democratic ofcls in #NewJersey have opposed its opening, leading to a lawsuit, #protests & a clash outside the facility that led to the arrest of #Newark’s #mayor & assault charges against US #House Rep #LaMonicaMcIver, a NJ #Democrat. McIver, who has maintained her innocence, is scheduled to be arraigned on Mon & has said she will enter a not-guilty plea.
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Acting U.S. Attorney for #NewJersey [& #Trump’s former personal defense attorney] #AlinaHabba announced the grand jury #indictment in a post on X [of course].
#LaMonicaMcIver, a #Democrat, had been charged in a complaint by Habba last month with two assault charges stemming from the May 9 visit to #Newark’s #DelaneyHall — a 1,000-bed, privately owned facility that #ICE uses as a detention center.
#Trump #law #immigration #RevengePolitics #Oversight #House #Congress
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US Rep #LaMonicaMcIver #indicted on federal charges from skirmish at #NewJersey #immigration center
Rep. LaMonica McIver was indicted Tuesday on federal charges alleging she impeded & interfered with immigration officers outside a New Jersey detention center while #Newark’s mayor was being arrested after he tried to join a congressional #oversight visit at the facility.
#Trump #law #RevengePolitics #House #Congress
https://apnews.com/article/lamonica-mciver-assault-charge-alina-habba-immigration-7b6a5b0fc8079a9efd0606ab68e3f02d -
Rep #LaMonicaMcIver charged with felony assault despite the video clearly showing her being pushed by #ICE THUGS
#RepLaMonicaMcIver #AbolishICE #NJ #NewJersey #FascistUSA #DueProcess #StopAbductionsAndRemovals
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Speaking of #LaMonicaMcIver! No, she was not singing in a CNN interview after CNN anchor @katebolduan.bsky.social said, "Congresswoman, you are now facing a federal charge, though. Are you afraid of what’s gonna transpire now?" www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...
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@anthonydavis.bsky.social provides an update on the charges filed against NJ Rep. #LaMonicaMcIver at the hands of #AlinaHabba following a scuffle at a #Newark #ICE detention facility, which resulted in the temporary arrest of Newark's mayor. youtu.be/1H15qC-I8vA?...
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In a week dominated by class war budget news, an ongoing genocide, and the persecution of Trump’s political opponents, the Skinny had a finger on the pulse.
https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/24/26716/2/
The Skinny: Threats, Fantasies, and Naked Corruption
"There is something fundamentally wrong, and actively dangerous, about a US corporate media complex that can watch a fascist, white nationalist, and openly nativist regime engage in a clear act of authoritarian political intimidation against its duly-elected political opposition, to protect a nightmare mass deportation scheme built on legal arguments you know are extremely dubious, and report it as a “clash” while accepting Alina Habba of all people’s arguments at face value. This isn’t bad journalism, this is paving the way for the fascist repression of Trump’s political opponents in real time and whether its a result of cowardice, or open collaboration, is absolutely fucking irrelevant. The United States is speedrunning a descent into a fascist dictatorship run by a brainwormed septuagenarian racist and his openly white nationalist toady Stephen Miller, and these chucklefucks are out here pretending just maybe a Congresswoman should do a couple decades of hard time for bumping into an ICE murderpig while literally being prevented from doing her job; even though we have the entire interaction on fucking video."
#Fascism #Trump #ICE #Politics #Media #Budget #MikeJohnson #LaMonicaMcIver #GOP #DemocraticParty #Austerity #ClassWar #Propaganda #MsRachel #Genocide #EnablingAct #TheSkinny #DHS #AlinaHabba
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The larger American establishment's ongoing surrender to Trump and his fascist regime is a story with many high-profile cowards, culprits, and collaborators. But given the frequently self-declared role of American media to speak truth to power, and protect our "democracy," I think it's entirely fair that corporate news outlets paving the way for Downmarket Mussolini to install a fascist dictatorship come in for extra vigorous criticism by honest observers who understand what they're doing. Take for example this recent piece for the Intercept by Natasha Leonard, examining how corporate media outlets reported the Department of Justice's outrageous plans to prosecute Democratic Congresswoman LaMonica McIver on wholly fabricated assault charges, after she attempted to conduct legal oversight on a privately-run ICE facility in her district.
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/20/trump-prosecuting-democrat-mciver-ice-media/
Trump Is Prosecuting a Congressional Democrat for Doing Her Job. The Media’s Response: No Big Deal.
“Democratic Rep. McIver charged with assault after skirmish at ICE center, New Jersey prosecutor says,” The Associated Press reported. “Rep. LaMonica McIver charged by DOJ over incident with ICE agents,” read the ABC News headline. “The Justice Department charged a New Jersey congresswoman with assaulting federal agents during a clash outside a Newark immigration detention center,” began the New York Times’s coverage.
All of these are technically accurate: Alina Habba, Trump’s sometime personal lawyer and the interim federal prosecutor for New Jersey, announced on X that the administration was charging the member of Congress with “assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement” after an incident when McIver and two other House members went to view ICE’s privately run Delaney Hall detention facility.
News organizations should, however, have long ago stopped affording the Trump administration such credulous coverage. Even the most bare-bones, facts-only reporting here fails the basic task of truth-telling if it doesn’t lead by pointing out that these charges are manufactured, malicious, politically motivated attacks."
I've written a bit about both the (now dropped) charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, and the pending charges against Congresswoman McIver so I won't rehash all the details here again; needless to say I agree wholeheartedly with Leonard's assertion that the charges against McIver are trumped up fascist nonsense, a clear case of attempted political intimidation, and part of a seemingly racist pattern of targeting its political opponents with the Justice Department, by the Trump administration. Furthermore, given that the incident that motivated interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba to file assault charges that each carry a maximum sentence of eight years was captured entirely on video, I don't think it is at all reasonable to pretend the Trump regime might have a point, or that this is a "she said, they said" kind of issue. Yet as Leonard documents, that's exactly how subservient media reported not only the story of McIver's targeting, but also the attempted prosecution of Baraka as well.
Look folks, this isn't a question of partisan political coverage; I'm no friend of the Democratic Party, and based on the significant quantity of her writing I've read, I'd be willing to bet neither is Leonard. There is something fundamentally wrong, and actively dangerous, about a US corporate media complex that can watch a fascist, white nationalist, and openly nativist regime engage in a clear act of authoritarian political intimidation against its duly-elected political opposition, to protect a nightmare mass deportation scheme built on legal arguments you know are extremely dubious, and report it as a "clash" while accepting Alina Habba of all people's arguments at face value. This isn't bad journalism, this is paving the way for the fascist repression of Trump's political opponents in real time and whether its a result of cowardice, or open collaboration, is absolutely fucking irrelevant. The United States is speedrunning a descent into a fascist dictatorship run by a brainwormed septuagenarian racist and his openly white nationalist toady Stephen Miller, and these chucklefucks are out here pretending just maybe a Congresswoman should do a couple decades of hard time for bumping into an ICE murderpig while literally being prevented from doing her job; even though we have the entire interaction on fucking video.
If this is the kind of coverage corporate media outlets intend to provide during the second Trump administration, then Downmarket Mussolini doesn't need to suppress the media. After all, they're already happy to work for him and his fascist agenda right now, and Der Leader is rather busy tearing what passes for American democracy apart as we speak.
#Trump #Fascism #Propaganda #Media #Collaborators #CorporateMedia #LaMonicaMcIver #RasBaraka #AlinaHabba #DoJ #Dictatorship #ICE #DHS #MassDeportations #DelaneyHall
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Trump Is Prosecuting a Congressional Democrat for Doing Her Job. The Media’s Response: No Big Deal.
You’d never know reading the New York Times that charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver are nothing but an authoritarian attack.
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/20/trump-prosecuting-democrat-mciver-ice-media/
#news #USnews #politics #authoritarianism #NewYork #LaMonicaMcIver #media #law #justice
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#AlinaHabba, a fmr personal atty to #Trump, also charged Rep #LaMonicaMcIver (D-NJ) w/assaulting 2 #ICE agents during the clash that erupted May 9 as agents arrested #RasBaraka. The congresswoman & other Dems in DC have decried her prosecution as“political #intimidation”
At Baraka’s hearing Wed, Demanovich sidestepped the judge’s demands to explain how prosecutors could have said last week they were fully prepared to take Baraka’s case to trial, only to drop the charges days later. -
Democratic Congresswoman #LaMonicaMcIver is charged with felony assault by #AlinaHabba, the intern US Attorney for #NewJersey. @askdinadoll.bsky.social reports on the indictment, related to the tour and resulting protest that occurred outside of a Newark #ICE detention. youtu.be/Qu6FCqFjfNk?...
Trump Attorney INDICTMENT of C... -
Trump defends DOJ's charges against McIver: "The days of that crap are over"
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/20/trump-lamonica-mciver-doj-charges-ice
"The days of woke are over," the president said. "We're going to have law and order."
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In a story that as far as I can tell represents a petulant fascist temper tantrum as a result of fallout over the clown-show authoritarian arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, noted sycophant Trump minion Alina Habba has announced criminal charges against US Congresswoman (D-NJ) LaMonica McIver. The regime is accusing the Congresswoman of assaulting two ICE agents during the lawful oversight visit she conducted on a sketchy, privately-run, recently reopened migrant detention facility called Delaney Hall; the very same visit that resulted in Trump's Gestapo arresting Baraka as part of the regime's attempts to intimidate opposition to their unlawful mass deportation campaign.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/lamonica-mciver-charges
'Should Send a Chill Down the Spine of Every American': Trump DOJ Charges New Jersey Democrat
"In a statement, Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba announced the charges against U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.), claiming the lawmaker "assaulted, impeded, and interfered with law enforcement" at GEO Group's Delaney Hall. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) awarded GEO Group a billion-dollar contract earlier this year to detain migrants there, even as the facility faced legal challenges and accusations of abuse.
McIver rejected the charges against her as "purely political," saying that "they mischaracterize and distort my actions" in an attempt to "criminalize and deter legislative oversight."
"We were fulfilling our lawful oversight responsibilities, as members of Congress have done many times before, and our visit should have been peaceful and short," said McIver. "Instead, ICE agents created an unnecessary and unsafe confrontation when they chose to arrest Mayor [Ras] Baraka."
Habba said Monday that her office has agreed to drop the trespassing charge against Baraka, who welcomed the decision while expressing solidarity with McIver."
Okay so I don't know if you remember the post I made about Baraka's arrest, but there are literally a bunch of links to video footage of the confrontation Habba is talking about and needless to say it doesn't show the Congresswoman assaulting anyone, let alone "body-slamming" anyone as at least one DHS official previously claimed. Even the government's own out of context video clip just shows some shoving in a crowd of people trying to protect the Mayor of Newark. In other words the Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey is straight up lying about something we can all watch on video. This would of course be more shocking if the world hadn't gotten to know Habba during her time as a defense attorney for Downmarket Mussolini, in which is she routinely spat out easily disprovable lies in court. As an activist I can say from personal experience that this feels an awful lot like the standard bullshit charge cops who just roughed up some protesters press to keep the heat off long enough for the story to go away, and then quietly drop later. You can see that same pattern at work in the "trespass" charges laid against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, which were ultimately dropped because the regime knows they don't have a leg to stand on when they're under oath.
With all that established however, I think it's important to understand that even if they ultimately drop the charges against McIver, as they did with Baraka, this is still an example of a fascist regime weaponizing the enforcement arm of the state, to target and intimidate their political opposition. Pam Bondi might not love the Justice Department's chances in a court of law, but a message is still being sent to opposition party politicians that if they try to interfere with the unlawful, openly fascist "whitening" of America, security forces will be deployed to stop them. This when combined with the regime's threatening rhetoric, and its day to day attempts to erode the oversight of the judiciary to do blatantly unconstitutional authoritarian bullshit, effectively creates an unstable political environment where opposition to the regime's program, even legal opposition, carries an impossible to properly calculate degree of personal risk to the critic. Whatever your opinion of the Democratic Party happens to be, I think we can all admit that putting their own asses on the line to protect dissidents and critics hasn't exactly been their forte since at least October 7th, 2023; although obviously Baraka, McIver, and Robert Menendez deserve full marks for doing so now.
Finally; I can't prove it, but for a fun thought experiment google up some pictures of Baraka, McIver, and Menendez and tell me if you can think of any obvious reasons a white nationalist government might charge only the two people they did. Yeah, looked about white to me too.
#Fascism #Trump #PoliceState #LaMonicaMcIver #ICE #DoJ #PamBondi #AlinaHabba #DHS #RasBaraka #DelaneyHall #RobertMenendez #Intimidation #DemocraticParty #USCongress #Newark #NewJersey #USPol #MassDeportation #Racism #WhiteNationalism
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Joy-Ann Reid reveals the troubling indictment of Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, suggesting it's rooted in her oversight role on nonwhite migrant treatment during the Trump era. Despite federal charges claiming she assaulted officers, video evidence contradicts this. New Jersey leaders, including Gov. Murphy and Sen. Booker, view the indictment as a power abuse aimed at silencing critiques of immigration policies. For full insights, read more: https://www.joyannreid.com/p/a-daily-reid-defend-lamonica-mciver #JoyAnnReid #LaMonicaMcIver #TrumpAdministration #CivilRights #PoliticalOversight #ImmigrationPolicy #NewJersey
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https://theintercept.com/2025/05/20/trump-prosecuting-democrat-mciver-ice-media/
#TheIntercept 🚨 🚨 #ALERT 🚨 🚨
Trump Is Prosecuting a Congressional Democrat for Doing Her Job. The #Media's Response: No Big Deal
You'd never know, reading the #NYT, that charges against Rep. #LaMonicaMcIver are nothing but an #authoritarian attack.
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New Jersey Congresswoman Charged After ICE Facility Clash
#ImmigrationJustice
#CongressWatch
#CivilRights
#AccountabilityMatters
#ICEdetention
#LaMonicaMcIver
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This whole thing is ridiculous. #DOJ is saying that after the congresswoman assaulted #ICE agents they then gave them a tour?
And why did it take 10 days for them to decide that Rep #LaMonicaMcIver had assaulted federal agents?
Oh right, because #KristiNoem started lying about it on TV. Got it.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #WeaponizationOfGovernment #immigration #Trump #RevengePolitics #racism #sexism
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Rep Buddy Carter, a #Republican from Georgia, introduced a resolution seeking to strip the lawmakers of their cmte assignments in the #House this week. Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene, also a GA Republican, called for Rep. #LaMonicaMcIver to be expelled from #Congress.
For weeks, Democratic ofcls in #NJ have protested the opening of #DelaneyHall, which is expected to significantly expand the federal govt’s detention capacity as it ramps up #immigration arrests across the country.
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#AlinaHabba claimed she had dismissed the charge against #RasBaraka “for the sake of moving forward.” [or because it was BS. He was invited in by agents & it was caught on multiple videos]
Rep #LaMonicaMcIver & the 2 other lawmakers—Reps Bonnie Watson Coleman & Rob Menendez—have pushed back against the #Trump admin’s contention that the legislators *stormed* into the detention center. The federal govt’s narrative has also been contradicted by video footage & by witnesses at the scene.
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“No one is above the law—politicians or otherwise,”[except #Trump] #AlinaHabba said in a statement. “It is the job of this office to uphold *justice* *impartially*, regardless of who you are. Now we will let the justice system work.”
In a statement on Monday, Rep #LaMonicaMcIver blamed federal law enforcement for instigating the clash, saying that “#ICE agents created an unnecessary & unsafe confrontation.”
#law #WeaponizationOfGovernment #immigration #RevengePolitics #racism #sexism
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#DOJ charged a #NewJersey congresswoman w/ #assault of federal agents at a #Newark #immigration detention center & dropped the BS trespass charge against Mayor #RasBaraka from the same episode.
#AlinaHabba, interim #USattorney for #NJ & fmr #Trump defense atty, posted on X that congresswoman #LaMonicaMcIver was charged “for assaulting, impeding & interfering w/law enforcement.”
#law #racism #sexism #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/nyregion/new-jersey-congress-ice-charges.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=A8431CAB-00E6-435B-B30C-FD2475D27BB2 -
Via #Newark, #NJ Mayor #RasBaraka:
This is the moment I was invited into #DelaneyHall. Nobody was kicking or shoving like the coverage suggests. We were invited in.
#Trump #KristiNoem #law #immigration #FactCheck #TrumpLies #GoodTrouble #AmericanAutocracy #BonnieWatsonColeman #LaMonicaMcIver #RobMenendez
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This is just a remarkable stream of outright lies from dog killer #KristiNoem. She claims that #House #Democrats committed felonies, violently attacked, assaulted & punched #ICE agents at #DelaneyHall in #Newark, #NJ.
They were literally sitting in an area that detention facility ofcls asked them to wait in.
How is anyone letting her get away with this?
#Trump #law #immigration #FactCheck #TrumpLies #GoodTrouble #AmericanAutocracy #BonnieWatsonColeman #LaMonicaMcIver #RobMenendez #RasBaraka
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New Jersey ELECTS #LamonicaMcIver to US HOUSE. She won 84% to 13%
They run again on November ballot for Full Term.https://apnews.com/article/new-jersey-house-election-lamonica-mciver-12472a748ffe151de7c23dac4098381d
https://apnews.com/article/new-jersey-house-election-lamonica-mciver-12472a748ffe151de7c23dac4098381d
