This Independence Day, be Proud of LaMonica McIver
By Max Pizarro | July 2, 2025, 2:26 pm
... While grown men slobber at the microphone over their leader and his bill rewarding the billionaire donor class, McIver - if you'll recall - stands charged in a three-count indictment brought by Acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba.
Habba charged McIver with "forcibly impeding and interfering with federal officers" as they attempted to arrest Newark Mayor Ras Baraka outside the Delaney Hall Federal Immigration Facility in Newark, New Jersey on May 9. On that day, McIver was doing her job as an elected representative, as she joined other members of Congress, including U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, seeking answers about a private detention facility and those people housed within.
You can watch McIver's "impeding and interfering" on video tape from various angles. The Congresswoman pleaded "not guilty" to federal charges. McIver’s lawyer, former U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Paul Fishman, said she pleaded not guilty because "she is not guilty."
The facts will speak in a Court of Law.
And the facts will speak to the priorities of McIver, who on that day in question cared enough about other human beings, newly vulnerable in a national atmosphere on a rancorous edge in large part owing to the cruel, nativist rhetoric of this President and his followers ...
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