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

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

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 ...

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

I fully support congressional oversight, but I will never support violence or interfering with law enforcement.” McIver “slammed her forearm into the body” of one Homeland Security agent and ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the Senate, which must approve a president's nominees for U.S. attorney, at least two Democrats are prepared to invoke a ...

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 ...