As Joe Biden wrote, no one is above the law
Let’s go to the Globe
The Justice Department plans to bring charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-Newark) following a scuffle with federal immigration agents last week at Newark’s Delaney Hall detention center, three sources speaking on the condition of anonymity confirmed to the New Jersey Globe.
Much is still unknown about the case against the freshman congresswoman, but interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba could announce charges as early as today. McIver may turn herself in this afternoon, the New Jersey Globe learned; she’ll be represented by Paul Fishman, the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey during the Obama administration.
Partway through the visit, Baraka was arrested by federal authorities; they claimed he was trespassing, while he maintained that he had followed their directions and left when they instructed him to. Baraka’s arrest prompted a scuffle among the three representatives, ICE agents, and a group of protesters who had gathered at Delaney Hall’s gate; both sides have claimed that the other was the aggressor in the fight, which seems to have caused no reported injuries.
Video footage shows the fight to have been a general scramble. McIver in particular forcefully attempted to protect Baraka both physically and verbally as he was led away, which may be the basis for charges against her, though claims from some Republicans that she body-slammed or punched ICE officers are more dubious based on the footage available. (Menendez and the 80-year-old Watson Coleman were also involved in the melee, but there’s less video evidence of them physically engaging with agents, perhaps explaining the Justice Department’s focus on McIver.)
What could the charges be? Assaulting a federal law enforcement officer. Obstructing/delaying an arrest (we call it RDO in NC “resisting, delaying, obstructing”). Felonies.
It matters not if she was in the course of performing her duties as a member of Congress
In Article I, Section 6, Clause 1, the Framers provided for Members of Congress to be free from arrest when attending or traveling to and from Congress except in cases of treason, felony, or breaches of the peace.1 In interpreting this provision, the Supreme Court has held that the phrase treason, felony, and breach of the peace encompasses all criminal offenses.2 Consequently, Members are only privileged from arrests arising from civil suits, which were common in America at the time the Constitution was ratified.3
She was not at the Capitol Bldg, nor traveling to or from it. So, yes, she can be arrested, charged, and tried for her actions, and convicted. And jailed. They are not above the law.
I set this to post at 3pm: let’s see if she is arrested before then. Or even in the next few days.
Let’s GO! Lock Donald up!!
You tried that. Didn’t work. Sucks to be you.
Arrested ? Sure indicted ? Sure tried and convicted ??? Nah but good theater for the weak minded.
She will demand a jury trial
What do you do Elwood, get up every morning put on the hate mask have a cup of coffee and go on after Trump? You’re such a fool. For five years we’ve been telling you you’re a fool for listening to everybody but us and look what it got you, you’re still rooting for a horrible loss and a party who hates America
if people like you don’t start supporting the Democrats you’re gonna lose again are you gonna keep on losing until you learn what’s going on and the crap you’re talking ain’t what’s going on.
Look at all the great things trump has done just in the last week or two. You should be embarrassed you’re not supporting him but we realize you left coasters went to school for weird shit and have no propensity for thought. You only think about race and money everything else is nothing which is why you people are nothing but empty sacks of crap.
Jeffery Lynn Keene of Affton, MO just likes to piss off people.
He’s been wrong about every subject brought up here at the Cove so consequently he lies and demeans.
This is his forte.
He must have nothing better to do.
Porter Wlliam Good of Raleigh, NC is a liar. Hiis little buddy Rodney(aka The Pissant) is even worse being a pitiable obsessed coward as well.
And within 30 minutes Jeffery Lynn Keene of Affton, MO proves my point.
Bravo, Rimjob.
Jeffery Lynn?
Explains a lot.
LGB,
“…you gonna keep on losing until you learn what’s going on”
Why not? It has worked so far for the Libertarians.
What else is to be said. This woman’s head must be the size of the Goodyear blimp after being elected to congress. Obviously on a power trip, with the weight of being A United States Congresswoman, her trip was undoubtedly laced with artificial shrooms on the way to the ICE facility.
I watched Majorie Taylor Greene introduce for the record the evidence against the Good illegal from Maryland and the newest FRESHMAN democrat, once again full of himself, was ranting and raving, out of order and wanting to deny her this event. After 20 minutes of the chairman banging his gavel, they finally showed him the evidence which showed.
1…the man was stood before an appellate court and found guilty of being an MS-13 member when all the evidence was presented. He got his day in court. Several witnesses testified to his running with MS-13 and police records indicated he as an ILLEGAL had broken the law….so, so, so many reasons to be deported.
Once they showed him what MJG was introducing, he retracted his objection in a low key, oppps….ya got me moment. Another case of never let the facts get in the way of a good civil unrest moment.
This ICE detention Facility has been open and operating since 2014. Now for some reason the left wants to shut it down.
Well we know the reason. The census bureau admitted these mistakes after the fact. This is not a consipracy, but a reality that cannot be corrected until the 2030 census, and of course the error was drastically in the leftists favor giving them 4 more electors and the GOP 4 less electors in the national election as well as 4 more representatives to send to congress based upon the areas the census was drastically off.
Summary The 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey (PES) revealed significant errors in the 2020 Census count. As a result, certain states will be shorted in their congressional representation until after the 2030 Census, while other states will get more representation than they are entitled to. Congress should investigate the 2020 Census to find out the cause of these errors and mandate changes to minimize, if not eliminate, problems in future counts. An effective investigation should determine why there were no such statistically significant errors in the 2010 Census in contrast to the 2020 Census. Congress should determine if federal funds should be distributed based on the corrected PES numbers, which requires an examination of the accuracy of the PES methods.
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