The political world was left reeling this week after a stunning legal escalation by former Trump attorney and current acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Alina Habba. In a move that has Democrats scrambling for cover, Habba filed assault charges against a sitting Democrat lawmaker—setting off a political firestorm that could shake Capitol Hill to its core.
Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey is now facing accusations that she physically confronted federal officers during what was supposed to be a standard visit to an ICE detention center. The visit turned chaotic, and now, for the first time in President Trump’s second term, the Justice Department has moved to charge a member of Congress.
The confrontation unfolded at the Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark. Rep. McIver was part of a delegation that included other New Jersey Democrats and Newark’s Democrat Mayor Ras Baraka. According to Habba’s office, the incident escalated when McIver allegedly “resisted and impeded federal law enforcement personnel” in a tense altercation over access to the facility.
What should have been a straightforward oversight visit turned into a full-blown legal mess. Though the scene was reportedly captured on video, the footage appears inconclusive—showing only a chaotic back-and-forth, without any definitive physical contact. Still, Habba is not backing down.
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