The Ministry of Justice of Donald Trump sends a message.
Interim American lawyer for the New Jersey Alina Habba district announced on Monday that she had release charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka for finished With authorities in an ice facility in his city earlier this month. But in a press release from Back-to-Back, the Ministry of Justice's official revealed that the administration would instead go after a sitting Congressman who was also present that day.
Habba, the former personal lawyer of Trump, stated charges against representative Lamonica Mciver for “attracting, hindering and interfering with law enforcement”, and insisted that Mciver's behavior during the collision of the ice facility “is not overlooked”.
“I have constantly made efforts to tackle these issues without setting criminal prosecution and I gave representative Mciver every opportunity to come to a resolution, but unfortunately she has taken,” Habba said in a rack.
Mciver and Baraka have both accused that they were violent in the protest.
“The charges against me are pure politics – they can misunderstand and distort my actions, and are intended to shorten and deter legal supervision,” Mciver said in a rack.
House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries fire The Trump administration last week for the charges against Baraka and for pointing they would go after Mciver. Jeffries argued that the threat of a sedentary congress of an ice facility would be a clear example of over -range.
“It's a red line,” Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol at the time. “They know better than going that way.”
Mciver visited the ice facility next month next month Representatives Rob Menendez and Bonnie Watson Coleman, Colleague New Jersey Democrats. Baraka joined the trio for a tour. Allegedly the legislators were in the facility to serve a summons Code -violations To a representative of the work company of the facility, Geo Group.
After Baraka had passed the entrance gates, the group was plagued by agents, with at least one of the legislators who was slid. Baraka was eventually arrested and Habba accused him of penetrating and ignoring several warnings from Homeland Security to leave the building.
But the legislators did not interpret the events of the day that way.
“What we experienced was the armament, is the abuse of power. … they know who we are … they acted and arrested the mayor,” Coleman saidadd That “If they can treat such members of the congress, imagine how they treat people on the street.”
Representatives from all over the country repeated that sentiment. In one after On X at the end of Monday, the Texas Greg Casar representative wrote that the charges against Mciver should “send a cold cold over the back of every American.”
“If the president of authorities can arrest chosen officials in an attempt to silence them, then no American is safe for his abuse of power,” he wrote.
