As Democratic lawmakers allege that President Donald Trump is weaponizing the justice system in New Jersey, the leading ...

Rep. LaMonica McIver's Democratic colleagues have backed her as many label the prosecution as a “scare tactic” from the Trump ...

Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) is being charged with assault after a melee outside an immigration detention facility in Newark ...

Democrats rallied behind N.J. Rep. who the Justice Department said assaulted an official at an immigration center. She disputes charge.

The DOJ charged Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) with assault over an ICE protest and dropped a trespassing charge against Newark, ...

The charges against McIver are a form of political intimidation directed with particular force against Black politicians—but it will work only if the people don’t have her back. Representative ...

U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba said the trespassing charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka have been dropped.

Democrats are rallying around McIver. The party’s leadership in the House, spearheaded by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), released a joint statement in support of their colleague late on ...

McIver has denied any wrongdoing and has accused ... “I am thankful for the outpouring of support I have received and I look forward to the truth being laid out clearly in court.” ...

The call for Republicans to support McIver is being led by former U.S. Rep. Mickey Edwards, who represented Oklahoma in Congress from 1977 to 1993, and former U.S. Rep. Claudine Schneider ...

I am thankful for the outpouring of support I have received and I look forward to the truth being laid out clearly in court," she added. The complaint alleges McIver tried to "thwart the arrest ...